Twenty
['twentɪ] or ['twɛnti]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one.
(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units .
Editor: Lois--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.
(a.) An indefinite number more or less that twenty.
(n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.
(n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.
Inputed by Harlow
Definition
adj. twice ten: nineteen and one: an indefinite number.—n. the number next after nineteen: the figures representing twenty: an old English division of infantry.—adj. Twen′tieth next after the nineteenth.—n. one of twenty equal parts of anything.—adv. Twen′tyfold twenty times as many.—adj. Twen′ty-four twenty and four.—n. the number made up of four and twenty: (pl. print.) a form of composed type or plates containing twenty-four leaves or forty-eight pages properly arranged for printing and folding: a book made up of sections of twenty-four pages.—n. Twen′ty-four′-mo written 24mo a leaf from a sheet of paper folded for a book in twenty-four equal parts: a book made up of leaves folded in twenty-four equal parts.
Typist: Tabitha
Examples
- Odessa is about twenty hours' run from Sebastopol, and is the most northerly port in the Black Sea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The marriage is fixed for the twenty-second of December. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was twice--twenty times as fine; not one quarter as comfortable. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is written in letters, not figures,--twenty thousand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She is four-and-twenty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I have only one pocket-handkerchief, he added, but if I had twenty, I would offer you each one. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Twenty-nine, I see. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I should have been fond enough of you even to go that length, and you would have accepted my invitation--you would, sir, twenty years ago! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It might have been twenty thousand pound. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If you change once, why not twenty times? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When he got home, he gave four of the twenties to his mother, asking her to keep them for him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Hillyer was quite a young man, then in his twenties, and very brilliant. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the year 179-, when he was just clear of these incumbrances, he gave the odds of 100 to 1 (in twenties) against Kangaroo, who won the Derby. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There aren't any four hundred twenties in the mountains, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Editor: Rodney