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twenty

twenty

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A number that is ten plus ten
  • numeral
  • /ˈtwɛnti/
translation icon : veinte
  • There are twenty students in the classroom working on their assignments.
  • twenty years
  • twenty-first century
  • twenty-first

I mean, I hope he's a twenty term leader.

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Examples

  • His essays have appeared in over twenty publications in the last five years, including the Kyoto Journal.

    Academic text (2011)
  • There are a lot of steps to machining out twenty of these.

  • We can get another twenty runs!

  • And I think it's more important to have twenty shots at this dream that we're all pursuing than to have one shot.

  • - Give me two twenty packs, please, Jimmy.

  • Twenty cents for the night shift!

  • And Lamborghini built just twenty of these for the entire world.

  • Twenty years I've studied the animal kingdom.

  • Think of a chain that has not one type of bead, but has twenty types of beads.

  • I just can't imagine being older than twenty-two; I have no experience at it.

    Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

20
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The number after nineteen and before twenty-one

is written as a word rather than as digits
XX
vstwenty
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A Roman numeral that means the number twenty

is written as a word rather than as Roman numerals

Idioms

2 3.4

Happens all the time without stopping

Always ready to work or help, day and night

9.9

Working all the time without rest

Compounds

A period equal to one full day and night

An amount equal to twenty out of every one hundred

A number equal to 120, ten more than one hundred ten

5 1.0

The position that comes after number twenty-four in a list

A piece of United States paper money worth twenty dollars

2 3.5

A card game where players try to get closer to 21 than the dealer without going over

A number equal to 125

1 7.5

A small pistol or rifle that uses .22 bullets

twenty-twenty
  • Specialized
1 4.3

Seeing clearly at 20 feet on an eye chart

The position number 125 in a list, order, or series

A clear understanding of what happened only after the event

A small gun that fires light bullets and does not push back much for target practice

A small gun that uses .22 bullets for target shooting or hunting small animals

How Many

thousand
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hundred
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fifty
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twenty
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ten
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five
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one
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Surface Forms

twenty cardinal word
20 cardinal digit

Etymology

Twenty comes from an old English way of saying 'two tens' and is made from two and ten, so you can think of 20 as two groups of ten. That's why twenty means the number 20.