24
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1.0
- numeral
- Hildy, all I'm asking is that you postpone it for 24 hours.
- 24 hours
- 24 years
- 24 months
Examples
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All this can be yours if you call within the next 24 hours.
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Walsall Council has launched a 24-hour Twitter feed to highlight the day-to-day tasks the authority carries out.
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Oh, not much has changed in the last 24 hours.
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This department will be closing in 24 hours.
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And we're just shy of 24 hours completed.
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From the moment of infection, you have perhaps 24 hours.
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It's been 24 hours.
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He's guarded, 24 hours a day.
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Within the state of Maryland, there are 24 districts, all of which participate in the PBIS Initiative.
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I will finish the project in 24 hours.
Synonyms
245
1.0
Being the number twenty plus four
107
1.0
Twenty-four things counted together
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7.4
The Roman numeral for twenty-four
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5.4
A Roman numeral that stands for 24
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
24 Comes from the parts twenty and four; twenty originally meant 'two tens', so 24 is literally 'two tens and four'. You can remember it easily because there are 24 hours in a day.