twenty
twenty Lexical Profile
twenty Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Amounting to one more than nineteen or two times ten; consisting of twenty units or members.
"The professor assigned twenty pages of reading for tomorrow's seminar."
• noun
The cardinal number equivalent to the product of two and ten; one more than nineteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 20 and in Roman numerals as XX.
"She was able to count to twenty in three different languages before starting kindergarten."
The numbers from twenty to twenty-nine, especially as denoting the years of a century or the years of a person's life (used in the plural).
"She spent her early twenties traveling and studying abroad in Europe."
A banknote or bill worth twenty units of a given currency, such as twenty dollars or twenty pounds.
"He handed the cashier a crisp twenty to pay for his lunch."
• pronoun
Twenty people or things previously mentioned or easily identified from context.
"Look at all the applicants waiting in the lobby; there must be at least twenty of them."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English twentig, meaning 'a group of two tens,' derived from Proto-Germanic *twai-tigiwiz (combining the root of 'two' with a suffix related to 'ten').