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Twenty
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- 1 being one more than nineteen wordnet
- 1 A hamlet in Bourne parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1520).
- 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
- 1 The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
Etymology
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.
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.
Apparently named after the Twenty Foot Drain, which no longer exists.
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