Twenty
noun, plural twenties.
1.
a cardinal number, 10 times 2.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 20 or XX.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
4.
Informal. a twenty-dollar bill:
Can you give me two tens for a twenty?
5.
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.
adjective
6.
amounting to 20 in number.
noun (pl) -ties
1.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and two; a score See also number (sense 1)
2.
a numeral, 20, XX, etc, representing this number
3.
something representing, represented by, or consisting of 20 units
determiner
4.
amounting to twenty: twenty questions
(as pronoun): to order twenty
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