twenty
//ˈtwɛnti//
Forms
- Plural
- twenties
Definitions
1.A banknote with a denomination of 20.(colloquial)
- The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
- The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
- Of course I can do them just the same as the others, technically there's nothing whatever against it. Only no one ever heard of soft flims for anything like that, only for fives or tens or at the most a twenty.
2.10-20 (location).
- What’s your twenty, good buddy?
3.The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
- She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
1.The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2343
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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.