Wiktionary
n. A solitaire card game with the goal of making a five-by-five square of cards so that every row and column is valid. num. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-four and preceding twenty-six.
WordNet
adj. being five more than twenty [syn: 25, xxv]
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-four and one [syn: 25, XXV]
Wikipedia
Twenty-Five is a solitaire game similar to poker square but without the complicated and involved scoring method. The goal is to make a five by five square of cards so that every row and column is valid.
Usage examples of "twenty-five".
Twenty-five feet above them, from the aft part of the sail, the Bigmouth antenna raised steadily upward, the top of the mast breaking the surface.
Cas and Pol were demigods from her vessel brought back to life after twenty-five hundred years, but their sadness in viewing the Agora, the ancient marketplace, was real.
During the present year, however, in the month of July, I came across a community with an unusually large stock of slaves, and I observed a few slaves mingled with their masters leaving the nest, and marching along the same road to a tall Scotch-fir-tree, twenty-five yards distant, which they ascended together, probably in search of aphides or cocci.
Saul walked out from the top of a dune on to the surface of an aqueduct that rose twenty-five feet above the sand and stretched for miles towards the cluster of ruins and new buildings near the sea.
Upon reaching a point some twenty-five miles northeast of El Arish, he would reverse course and begin their orbit.
She only witnessed the withdrawal of the armthe fair round arm of a woman but twenty-five years old, and who yet spread death around her.
The ground attack would start as soon as twenty-five days after the air strikes began, in which case the United States would be attacking with as little as a 2,000-man Marine Expeditionary Unit and two Army brigades.
It had been assembled twenty-five years previously when the first colonists arrived, and its austere fittings were showing their age.
Accordingly, in the afternoon a second meeting was held, at which the Russians repeated what Stalin had said to us, to the effect that twenty-five divisions would be assigned to the defence of the Caucasus mountain line and the passages at either end, and that they believed they could hold both Batum and Baku and the Caucasus range until the winter snows greatly improved their position.
June 8th, 1869, when they defeated the Columbias of that city by the remarkable score of 209 to 10, two of the Niagaras scoring twenty-five runs each, and the least number of runs, scored by any one batsman amounted to twenty.
Irene made him a profound bow as he made room for her by his side, and putting the hundred sequins before her she began by winning a hundred and twenty-five, as instead of going seven and the va, she only went the paix de paroli.
Next morning, just as I was going to get into my carriage, a young man between twenty-five and thirty, tall and strong and broad shouldered, his eyes black and glittering, his eyebrows strongly arched, and his general air being that of a cut-throat, accosted me and begged me to step aside and hear what he had to say.
The count took her in his arms, and caressing her in the tenderest manner begged her to do him this favour, not so much for the twenty-five Louis, as to convince me that he was above vulgar prejudices.
I went first to a place called Fumta Bou Beker, twenty-five minutes from our encampment.
Traffic streamed into town, cars and buses, but the most common vehicles were bicycles and matatus, the clapped-out minibuses discarded by the safari companies and now carrying as many as twenty-five passengers in spaces designed for eight.