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twenty

See also: Twenty

EnglishEdit

English numbers (edit)
200
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2
    Cardinal: twenty
    Ordinal: twentieth
    Adverbial: twenty times
    Multiplier: twentyfold
 
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Alternative formsEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

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.

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twenty

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

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  • Tok Pisin: twenti

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NounEdit

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[1]:
      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.

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Middle EnglishEdit

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

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EtymologyEdit

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

NumeralEdit

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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