twentyfold

[ adjective twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-; adverb twen-tee-fohld, twuhn- ]

adjective

1. having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
2. being twenty times as large, great, many, etc.

adverb

1. twenty times in amount or degree.

Word History and Origins

Origin of twentyfold¹

First recorded in 1600–10; twenty + -fold

Example Sentences

New Orleans has survived at least a dozen great yellow-fever crises since 1812, population meanwhile increasing twentyfold.

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The seed had brought forth in him tenfold, perhaps twentyfold.

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It is the vanity of the paleface to hold that he can whip twentyfold his weight in any alien race.

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By 1917 our export of evaporated, condensed, and dried milk had gone up twentyfold.

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It has been the fashion of our own age to beat out works into twentyfold and fiftyfold the size of those of Collins.

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