twenty-four

[twen-tee-fawr, -fohr, twuhn-]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.

2. a symbol for this number, as 24 or XXIV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 24 in number.

Example Sentences

By the end of twenty-four hours, we had inches and inches of powdery, white snow — somewhere around 8”-10” all along the Coast from Texas to Florida.

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“Paintball is a game. Dungeons and Dragons is a game. Survival Night is REAL. For twenty-four hours, you will be living in a postapocalyptic world.”

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The Russians, with twenty-four cavalry divisions, had over a million horses.

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But the past twenty-four hours had changed him.

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A total of twenty-four employees across the business have been made redundant.

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