twentyfold
[ adjective twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-; adverb twen-tee-fohld, twuhn- ]
adjective
adverb
twenty times in amount or degree.
Origin of twentyfold
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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.
Timar's Two Worlds | Mr JkaiThe 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. KeelingTown 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 CoxAt the time, its population was swollen ten or twenty-fold by the pilgrims attending the Passover.
With the British Army in The Holy Land | Henry Osmond LockThe farmers put the average yield of rice at thirty-fold, and of other grain at twenty-fold.
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