Twenty
/ˈtwɛnti/ name, noun, num, slang
name, noun, num, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29). in-plural
"She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?"
- 2 a United States bill worth 20 dollars wordnet
- 3 A banknote with a denomination of 20. colloquial
"The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty."
- 4 the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one wordnet
- 5 10-20 (location).
"What’s your twenty, good buddy?"
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- 6 An old English division of infantry. UK, historical
Adjective
- 1 being one more than nineteen wordnet
Numeral
- 1 The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
Proper Noun
- 1 A hamlet in Bourne parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1520).
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More examples"Where is your twenty? I'll give you five bucks for it."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) + *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.
Etymology 2
Apparently named after the Twenty Foot Drain, which no longer exists.