twentyfold

[ adjective twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-; adverb twen-tee-fohld, twuhn- ]

/ adjective ˈtwɛn tiˌfoʊld, ˈtwʌn-; adverb ˈtwɛn tiˈfoʊld, ˈtwʌn- /

having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.

being twenty times as large, great, many, etc.

twenty times in amount or degree.

Origin of twentyfold

First recorded in 1600–10; twenty + -fold

The guards, both crimson and blue, formed a twenty-fold cordon.

The Blind Spot |Austin Hall
The effect produced by the Colony Garden, or public grounds, was such as twenty-fold to return the cost and labour bestowed on it.

The Crater |James Fenimore Cooper
Accurate measurements have shown that the axis of a glacier may move ten- or twenty-fold more rapidly than its margins.

The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 |Various
The farmers put the average yield of rice at thirty-fold, and of other grain at twenty-fold.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8 |Various

At 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 Lock