twenty
Americannoun
plural
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a cardinal number, 10 times 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 20 or XX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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Informal. a twenty-dollar bill.
Can you give me two tens for a twenty?
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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.
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Slang. Also 20 location; ten-twenty.
What’s your twenty?
adjective
noun
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the cardinal number that is the product of ten and two; a score See also number
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a numeral, 20, XX, etc, representing this number
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something representing, represented by, or consisting of 20 units
determiner
Etymology
Origin of twenty
First recorded 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
Example Sentences
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When Rebekah Lee was in her twenties, she decided to embark on an ambitious climb up Mount Stuart in Washington State and "made a series of bad decisions".
From BBC
Leah was more than twenty years older than her two youngest sisters.
From Literature
For example, ten minutes from now, or twenty or ninety, a rainfall may begin.
From Literature
We just stood there in the silence about twenty feet apart looking at each other.
From Literature
"As a local representative, it's my duty to ask why this model or this script has continued to be repeated for more than twenty years," Casillas adds.
From BBC
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