ALL meanings of twenties
twen·ty
T t - noun,plural twenties decade: 20s 1
- noun,plural twenties age: 20-29 years 1
- noun plural twenties a cardinal number, 10 times 2. 1
- noun plural twenties a symbol for this number, as 20 or XX. 1
- noun plural twenties a set of this many persons or things. 1
- noun plural twenties Informal. a twenty-dollar bill: Can you give me two tens for a twenty? 1
- noun plural twenties 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 twenties amounting to 20 in number. 1