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# The [[cardinal number]] [[20]], occurring after [[nineteen]] and before [[twenty-one]]. |
# The [[cardinal number]] [[20]], occurring after [[nineteen]] and before [[twenty-one]]. |
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Revision as of 20:53, 1 December 2022
See also: Twenty
English
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Cardinal: twenty Ordinal: twentieth Adverbial: twenty times Multiplier: twentyfold Group collective: score |
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: XX
Etymology
From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "Latinx" is not valid. See WT:LOS., 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
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈtwɛnti/, [ˈtw̥ɛ̃nti]
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: twĕnʹtē, IPA(key): /ˈtwɛnti/, [ˈtw̥ɛɾ̃i], /ˈtwɛni/, [ˈtw̥ɛ̃ɾ̃i]
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "parts of the US and Canada" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈtwʌn(t)i/, /ˈtwʊn(t)i/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnti, -ʌnti
Numeral
twenty
- The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: twenti
Translations
cardinal number
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Noun
twenty (plural twenties)
- (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.
- (CB slang) 10-20 (location).
- What’s your twenty, good buddy?
- 2012, Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani, 0:54 from the start, in Settle Down[2] (music video), No Doubt (actor), Vevo:
- What's your twenty?
Where's your brain?
Checking in to check you out
Concerned about your whereabouts
- (UK, historical, military) An old English division of infantry.
Translations
a banknote with a denomination of 20
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CB slang: location
Middle English
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Cardinal: twenty Ordinal: twentithe |
Alternative forms
- thewenti, thwenti, tuenti, tuentie, tweinti, twenti, twentig, twentie, twenntiȝ, twentti, twinti, twonti, twontie
Etymology
From Old English twēntiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz; equivalent to twei + -ty.
Numeral
twenty
- 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
- There came at nightfall to that hostelry
Descendants
References
- “twentī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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- Rhymes:English/ɛnti
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