twenty

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English

English numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: twenty
    Ordinal: twentieth
    Adverbial: twenty times
    Multiplier: twentyfold
    Group collective: score
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Alternative forms

  • Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
  • Roman numerals: XX

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.

Pronunciation

Numeral

twenty

  1. The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

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Descendants

  • Tok Pisin: twenti

Translations

Noun

twenty (plural twenties)

  1. (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.
    The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
    • 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎:
      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.
  2. (CB slang) 10-20 (location).
    What’s your twenty, good buddy?
  3. (UK, historical, military) An old English division of infantry.

Translations

Middle English

Middle English numbers (edit)
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2[a], [b]
    Cardinal: twenty
    Ordinal: twentithe

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English twēntiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz; equivalent to twei +‎ -ty.

Numeral

twenty

  1. twenty
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 23–24:
      At nyght was come into that hostelrye
      Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye
      There came at nightfall to that hostelry
      Some nine and twenty in a company

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