twenty-five
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- numeral
- /ˈtwɛnti faɪv/
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- The concert will start in twenty-five minutes, so we should find our seats now.
- twenty-five years
- twenty-five years old
- twenty-five percent
Examples
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But blaming anybody after twenty-five years is no way to get on with your life.
Fiction book (1991) -
The average annual precipitation is twenty-five inches, most of it falling between November and April.
Academic text (2013) -
Your father and I have worked together twenty five years.
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Twenty-five years later, I think about her, it still makes my blood move.
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"I meet you in front of 'The Coop' in twenty-five minutes, O.K.?"
Fiction book (1991) -
Beginning around 1980, approximately twenty-five new courses were established each year.
Academic text (2013) -
Women were eligible for seniority pensions after completing twenty-five years of contributions.
Academic text (1999) -
Twenty-five years ago, Wyld Stallyns played a concert at the Grand Canyon.
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The Field Museum has an extraordinary array of twenty-five beaded crowns in a great range of styles.
Academic text (1999) -
The iron griddle could hold a good twenty to twenty-five sourdough flapjacks and a pound of bacon.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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The number after twenty and before twenty-six
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A Roman way of writing the number twenty-five
A Roman numeral for 25
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Etymology
The word twenty-five is made of twenty and five. Think of twenty as 'two tens', so twenty-five means 'two tens plus five'.