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

Why, in the past twenty-four hours alone, she had traversed a forest on foot in uncomfortable boots, spent the night in a cave, and befriended a terrifying wolf.

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And within that time frame, there are just twenty-four to thirty-six hours in which she’s able to conceive.

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More than twenty-four hundred Americans were killed and almost twelve hundred people were wounded.

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It can take up to twenty-four hours for a properly functioning nuclear reactor to reach cold shutdown—the point at which the temperature of the core dips below boiling.

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I was twenty-four years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing which stocks and bonds would rise and which would fall.

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