twelve
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- numeral
- /twɛlv/
- There are twelve months in a year.
- twelve years
- twelve months
- twelve hours
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Watch on YouTubeFavour will have played twelve film festivals on its Film Festival run.
- Favour will have played twelve film festivals on its Film Festival run.
- And in this three games I scored twelve goals, something like that.
- Let's see how about blush highlight twelve eye shadows and two cream products.
- Ultimately killing twelve people before fatally shooting himself.
- If there were Oscars for dialect coaches, he would have won twelve.
- A lot of psychologists, lot of lot of locks on doors, lot of lot of kids that there were twelve of us in there at any one time it was locked down.
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And I say, OK, and they say there's twelve of us or nine of us sitting around this table.
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Twelve seconds and we're going over!
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I think I would probably be walking twelve dogs a day.
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So twelve of those are are green and only four of those are red.
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So, did you stay on at school after you were twelve, then?
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And in this three games I scored twelve goals, something like that.
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Just before I was twelve.
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Just these twelve largest companies out of Stanford have created almost half a million new jobs.
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They only made twelve of these in the entire world.
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'Ah, it's just gone twelve o'clock.'
Synonyms
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The number after eleven and before thirteen
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A group of twelve things or people
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An old local word for twelve
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Twelve family groups in ancient Israel that each come from one of Jacob's sons
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The main gods in Greek myths who live on Mount Olympus after the defeat of the Titans
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A way of writing music that uses the twelve notes in a set order
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Etymology
Twelve comes from an old word that meant 'two left' after ten, made from two plus a part meaning 'left'. So, twelve is literally the 'two' left after ten, which is why it means the number 12.