twenty-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 25 or XXV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Instead, it is more likely that of the roughly twenty-five million people living in the United States in the early 1850s, more than a million were practicing Spiritualism of some kind.
From Literature
It’s only twenty-five pieces, which is way too easy for her, especially when she insists on me helping.
From Literature
For this particular game, the first person to get twenty-five right wins.
From Literature
The surge in measles cases comes more than twenty-five years after the nation was declared measles-free.
From Salon
If she had rolled over, she would have fallen twenty-five feet.
From Literature
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