Definitions for twenty

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twenty twen·ty

Spelling: [twen-tee, twuhn-]

IPA: /ˈtwɛn ti, ˈtwʌn-/

Twenty is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in twenty (enttwy).

Definitions for twenty

noun

1. a cardinal number, 10 times 2.
2. a symbol for this number, as 20 or XX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. Informal. a twenty-dollar bill:
5. twenties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 20 through 29, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature:

adjective

1. amounting to 20 in number.

Origin of twenty

before 900; Middle English; Old English twēntig; cognate with Old Frisian tw(e)intich, Old High German zweinzug (German zwanzig), Gothic twai tigjus two tens

Examples for twenty

No, sir; I'm not gwine to stir from here till I git my twenty dollars!

twenty years ago, on December 11th, Chechens heard that Russian President Boris Yeltsin had deployed tanks against them.

That must have galled Lehman, who is twenty years younger than Hitchcock.

When I was twenty I could have loved him devotedly, I believe.

There were about twenty round us; they appeared very frightened.

After travelling about twenty miles, met the party coming all right.

twenty minutes after the interview was over, the translator knocked on my hotel room door.

Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?

It proved to be a sign some twenty feet high and a whole block long.

By the end of the construction period, the number of deaths had reached roughly twenty percent of the workforce.