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.

Origin of twentyfold

1
First recorded in 1600–10; twenty + -fold

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How to use twentyfold in a sentence

  • Then followed such a fruitful year that whoever had profited by the favorable season in Banat received twenty-fold in crops.

  • The population of the Dominion has trebled, and its revenues have increased twenty-fold, since its constitution was thus settled.

    Great Britain and Her Queen | Anne E. Keeling
  • Town lots sold in a most remarkable manner, many valuable corners increasing in value ten and twenty-fold in a single night.

    My Native Land | James Cox
  • At the time, its population was swollen ten or twenty-fold by the pilgrims attending the Passover.

  • The farmers put the average yield of rice at thirty-fold, and of other grain at twenty-fold.