| 单词 | the twenty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe twenty d. the twenty (at Rugby School): see quot. a1894. the twenty-four, a body of 24 men having some special office (at various times and places: see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > of specific number of people the twenty-four1440 octovirate1610 douzaine1771 troika1945 society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > form or class form1560 first forma1602 remove1718 shell1736 sixth-form1807 lower sixth (form)1818 pettya1827 grade1835 the twenty1857 baby class1860 standard1862 nursery class1863 primer1885 reception class1902 sixth form1938 reception1975 1440 in Glew Hist. Walsall (1856) 105 The Masters..shall not make gift or graunt of eny donacion of eny Chantrey..withoute the assent of the xxiiij. 1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vi. 184 These citizens are commonly called by the name of the twenty four; though they may be more or less than that number. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. viii. 403 How well I remember the day we were put out of the twenty [into the sixth form]. 1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant II. 347 The governing body is no longer [after 1622] called ‘the twenty-four’..but simply the ‘probi homines’. a1894 C. H. Pearson in Stebbing Life (1900) 23 Scholarship at Rugby was picked up in the Twenty, a sort of lower sixth. < as lemmas |
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