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- [twen-tee, twuhn-]
- /ˈtwɛn ti, ˈtwʌn-/
- /ˈtwenti/
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- [twen-tee, twuhn-]
- /ˈtwɛn ti, ˈtwʌn-/
Definitions of twenty word
- noun plural twenty a cardinal number, 10 times 2. 1
- noun plural twenty a symbol for this number, as 20 or XX. 1
- noun plural twenty a set of this many persons or things. 1
- noun plural twenty Informal. a twenty-dollar bill: Can you give me two tens for a twenty? 1
- noun plural twenty 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: He lives in the West Twenties. She's in her early twenties. The temperature must be in the high twenties today. 1
- adjective twenty amounting to 20 in number. 1
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Origin of twenty
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
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
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Parts of speech for Twenty
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
twenty popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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