twenty-five

[twen-tee-fahyv, twuhn-]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 5.

2. a symbol for this number, as 25 or XXV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 25 in number.

Example Sentences

“Margaret, you must do something about my face. To look at me, anyone would think I was a bloodless old crone of twenty-five.”

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There are roughly twenty-five varieties of bamboo plants grown in the area where the pandas currently live.

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His name was Dirk Pitt, and in more than twenty-five best-selling books, Cussler kept readers wondering how Pitt would ever get out of his latest seemingly impossible situation.

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It took the French twenty-five years before they moved their obelisk to Paris.

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Oppenheimer employed twenty-five or so analysts, most of whose analysis went ignored by the rest of Wall Street.

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