25
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veinticinco
- The marathon is about 25 miles long.
- 25 years
- 25 percent
- aged 25
Examples
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The groups are provided daily direct instruction for 25 minutes each morning for a total of two weeks.
Academic text (2011) -
$25 bucks for standing in the sun all day.
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Been doing this for 25 years.
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Numbers of service users: About 25 each session, split into three age groups.
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The groups are provided daily instruction for 25 minutes each morning for a total of eight weeks.
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Oh, it probably actually extends about 25 miles to the southeast here.
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Because their plants are no more than 25 years old, they have very few retirees.
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All were between the ages of 25 and 57 and volunteered to participate.
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I've heard something of his history for 25 years, but there's always more to know.
Fiction book (1992) -
Earlier this year, on Jan. 28, we remembered the explosion 25 years ago of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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The number after twenty-four and before twenty-six
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A Roman way of writing the number twenty-five
Compounds
A large bridge over the Tagus River in Lisbon that looks like San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge
A large bridge held by cables across the Tagus River in Lisbon commemorating the 1974 Carnation Revolution
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Etymology
25 Comes from putting twenty and five together and simply means 'five more than twenty'. You can remember it as 'two tens and five', which is why we use 25 for ages, counts, and distances.