twenty-three

[twen-tee-three, twuhn-]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 3.

2. a symbol for this number, as 23 or XXIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 23 in number.

Example Sentences

Counting the layover in Hong Kong, it took Mother twenty-three hours to fly from London to Sydney.

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“However, taking twenty-two and twenty-three minutes to transition from a non-emergency activity — like eating a meal, writing a report, or using the restroom — to respond to a priority-one gunshot call is unacceptable.”

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Now I am a brain with twenty-three cameras attached to it sitting on a table in a laboratory.

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“Maybe. I don't know yet. Only takes twenty-three hours by bullet train to get to New York City. I looked it up.”

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Two thousand twenty-three also brought utter devastation when a rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco in September, damaging thousands of villages in the mountains south of Marrakech and killing nearly 3,000 people.

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