释义
[ twen -tee, twuhn - ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈtwɛn ti, ˈtwʌn- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun, plural twen·ties. a cardinal number, 10 times 2.
a symbol for this number, as 20 or XX.
a set of this many persons or things.
Informal . a twenty-dollar bill: Can you give me two tens for a 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.
Also 20 .Slang . location; ten-twenty: What’s your twenty?
SEE MORE SEE LESS adjective amounting to 20 in number.
Origin of twenty First recorded 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
Words nearby twenty twelve-tone, twelve-tone row, twelve-tone technique, twentieth, Twentieth Amendment, twenty , Twenty20, twenty-eight, twenty-eighth, twenty-fifth, Twenty-fifth Amendment
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Example sentences from the Web for twenty Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?
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Twenty minutes after the interview was over, the translator knocked on my hotel room door.
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That must have galled Lehman, who is twenty years younger than Hitchcock.
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When the operator has composed twenty or twenty -five of these slugs, his take is completed.
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Care of the rooms was strictly included in the boarder's twenty dollars a month, but Kern was not thinking of it that way exactly.
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A neighbor of his told me he had seen a flock of fifteen or twenty pigeons on a foggy morning only a few days before.
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Clark had left twenty men, the Indian girl and her baby, and they had fifty horses.
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The next place, a village of perhaps twenty or thirty houses and half a dozen stores, was soon reached.
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British Dictionary definitions for twenty noun plural -ties the cardinal number that is the product of ten and two; a score See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 20, XX, etc, representing this number
something representing, represented by, or consisting of 20 units
determiner amounting to twenty twenty questions (as pronoun ) to order twenty
Other words from twenty Related adjectives: vicenary, vigesimal Related prefix: icosa- Word Origin for twenty Old English twēntig ; related to Old High German zweinzug , German zwanzig
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