twenty

[ twen-tee, twuhn- ]

/ ˈtwɛn ti, ˈtwʌn- /

noun, plural twen·ties.

a cardinal number, 10 times 2.

a symbol for this number, as 20 or XX.

a set of this many persons or things.

Informal. a twenty-dollar bill: Can you give me two tens for a twenty?

twenties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 20 through 29, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature: He lives in the West Twenties. She's in her early twenties. The temperature must be in the high twenties today.

adjective

amounting to 20 in number.

Origin of twenty

before 900; Middle English; Old English twēntig; cognate with Old Frisian tw(e)intich, Old High German zweinzug (German zwanzig), Gothic twai tigjus two tens

Words nearby twenty

twelvemonth, twelvepenny nail, twelver, twentieth, twentieth amendment, twenty, twenty questions, twenty thousand leagues under the sea, twenty-eight, twenty-eighth, twenty-fifth

Example sentences from the Web for twenty

Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?

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Care of the rooms was strictly included in the boarder's twenty dollars a month, but Kern was not thinking of it that way exactly.

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A neighbor of his told me he had seen a flock of fifteen or twenty pigeons on a foggy morning only a few days before.

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British Dictionary definitions for twenty

twenty

/ (ˈtwɛntɪ) /

noun plural -ties

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and two; a score See also number (def. 1)

a numeral, 20, XX, etc, representing this number

something representing, represented by, or consisting of 20 units

determiner

amounting to twentytwenty questions
(as pronoun)to order twenty

Other words from twenty

Related adjectives: vicenary, vigesimal Related prefix: icosa-

Word Origin for twenty

Old English twēntig; related to Old High German zweinzug, German zwanzig

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twenty

noun, plural twen·ties.

adjective

Origin of twenty

Words nearby twenty

Example sentences from the Web for twenty

British Dictionary definitions for twenty

noun plural -ties

determiner

Other words from twenty

Word Origin for twenty

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

twenty

noun, plural twen·ties.

adjective

Origin of twenty

Words nearby twenty

Example sentences from the Web for twenty

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noun plural -ties

determiner

Other words from twenty

Word Origin for twenty

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