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twenty
[ twen-tee, twuhn- ]
noun
- 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.
- Also 20. Slang. location; ten-twenty ( def ):
What’s your twenty?
adjective
- amounting to 20 in number.
twenty
/ ˈٷɛԳɪ /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and two; a score See also number
- a numeral, 20, XX, etc, representing this number
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of 20 units
determiner
- amounting to twenty
twenty questions
- ( as pronoun )
to order twenty
yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of twenty1
Example Sentences
We’re talking about twenty million people dependent on H.I.V. medicines—and you have to calculate how many you think will get back on, and how many will die in a year.
Somehow, though, even living in North Jersey, fennel somehow managed to elude me until my early twenties, when I went to culinary school.
"We are asking local authorities and public bodies to step up to this enormous challenge, after almost twenty years of austerity budgets, where their capacity has been hollowed out," he said.
Also killed - another street vendor, in his twenties.
After being told the figure is closer to 1%, however, the percentage who believe the U.S. spends too much on foreign aid “drops more than twenty percentage points,” KFF found, to just 34%.
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