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twenty-three

twenty-three

56 1.0
The number after twenty-two and before twenty-four
  • numeral
  • /ˈtwɛnti θriː/
translation icon : veintitrés
  • When we got the news, we were twenty-three and ambitious for other things.
  • twenty-three years old
  • twenty-three years
  • twenty-three percent

Examples

  • Twenty-three years of suffering.

    Heavy Traffic (1973)

  • When Wayne Adkins was twenty-three years old, his destiny was clear.

    Academic text (2011)

  • How old are you? - Twenty three.

    Arizona Dream (1993)

  • Honey, all you have to be by the age of twenty-three... is yourself.

    Reality Bites (1994)

  • I only get twenty-three minutes a week with these kids.

    Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

  • Twenty-three years is something, right?

    Gone Baby Gone (2007)

  • The Canada-United States Law Institute was established twenty-three years ago, in 1976.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The ages of the participants ranged from twenty-three to sixty years, with a mean of forty years.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Twenty-three students I train so I can coach Tonya full-time.

    I, Tonya (2017)

  • There were exactly twenty-three participants in the study, making it a diverse group.

Synonyms

23
vstwenty-three
844 1.0

A number three more than twenty

is the same number but spelled out in words
XXIII
vstwenty-three
4 6.7

A sign that shows the number 23 in Roman numerals

is the same number but given as words rather than numerals

How Many

one hundred
194 1.0
fifty
876 1.0
twenty-three
56 1.0
twenty
∞ 1.0
ten
∞ 1.0
one
1.0

Surface Forms

twenty-three cardinal word
23 cardinal digit
twenty three cardinal word

Morphology

twenty-three = twenty + three (transparent) = twenty + three

The numeral is a straightforward compound of 'twenty' and 'three' representing 20 + 3, which learners can compute.

Etymology

Twenty-three is simply the number twenty plus three. The part twenty originally meant 'two tens' and comes from two and ten, so twenty-three literally means 'two tens plus three', which is why it equals 23.