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twenty

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Definite Article, Noun
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twen=ty
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88 in 167 verses (in OT : 84 in 157 verses) (in NT : 4 in 10 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

twentya. [OE. twenty, AS. tw, twentig; akin to OFries. twintich, OS. tw, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. twai tigjis; that is, two tens. See Twain, Two, and Ten.].
  •  One more than nineteen; twice ten; as, twenty men.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An indefinite number more or less that twenty.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
    "Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man."  [1913 Webster]
twentyn. 
  •  The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

twenty, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 the product of two and ten.
2 a symbol for this (20, xx, XX).
3 (in pl.) the numbers from 20 to 29, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life.
4 colloq. a large indefinite number (have told you twenty times).
--adj. that amount to twenty.

Idiom
twenty-first, -second , etc. the ordinal numbers between twentieth and thirtieth. twenty-one, -two , etc. the cardinal numbers between twenty and thirty. twenty-twenty (or 20/20)
1 denoting vision of normal acuity.
2 colloq. denoting clear perception or hindsight.
Derivative
twentieth adj. & n. twentyfold adj. & adv.
Etymology
OE twentig (perh. as TWO, -TY(2))

ROGET THESAURUS

twenty

Five

N five, five, cinque, quint, quincux, six, half-a- dozen, half dozen, seven, eight, nine, three times three, dicker, ten, decade, eleven, twelve, dozen, thirteen, long dozen, baker's dozen, quintuplet, twenty, score, twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen, twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred, forty, two score, fifty, half a hundred, sixty, three score, seventy, three score and ten, eighty, four score, ninety, fourscore and ten, sestiad, hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century, hundredweight, cwt, one hundred and forty-four, gross, thousand, chiliad, millennium, thousand years, grand, myriad, ten thousand, ban, man, ten thousand years, banzai, lac, one hundred thousand, plum, million, thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion, five, quinary, quintuple, fifth, senary, sextuple, sixth, seventh, septuple, octuple, eighth, ninefold, ninth, tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth, eleventh, duodenary, duodenal, twelfth, in one's 'teens, thirteenth, vicesimal, vigesimal, twentieth, twenty-fourth, vicenary, vicennial, centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial, secular, hundredth, thousandth.


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