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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
twenty
number
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a two-hour/twenty minute etc nap
▪ At age four, she was still having a two-hour nap every day.
in your early twenties/forties etc (=aged 20–23, 40–43 etc)
▪ Both men are in their early twenties.
ten to five/twenty to one etc (=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour)
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in your middle twenties/thirties etc
▪ Among these was a tall firebrand of a patriot in his middle twenties.
▪ Owen and the Victoria Centre Owen is in his middle thirties and his working background is in education.
▪ While still in his middle twenties, he was offered a teaching position at an Ivy League university.
▪ You must be in your middle thirties.
twenty-four hour clock
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Since most of the male students were in their mid to late twenties, spouse hunting for them was a major preoccupation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twenty

Twenty \Twen"ty\, a. [OE. twenty, AS. tw?ntig, twentig; akin to OFris. twintich, OS. tw?ntig, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. twai tigjis; that is, two tens. See Twain, Two, and Ten.]

  1. One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.

  2. An indefinite number more or less that twenty.
    --Shak.

    Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man.
    --Bacon.

Twenty

Twenty \Twen"ty\, n.; pl. Twenties.

  1. The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.

  2. A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
twenty

Old English twentig "group of twenty," from twegen "two" (see two) + -tig "group of ten" (see -ty (1)). Cognate with Old Saxon twentig , Old Frisian twintich, Dutch twintig, Old High German zweinzug, German zwanzig. Gothic twai tigjus is even more transparent: literally "two tens."\n

\nThe card game twenty-one (1790) is from French vingt-et-un (1781). Twenty-twenty hindsight is first recorded 1962, a figurative use of the Snellen fraction for normal visual acuity, expressed in feet. The guessing game of twenty questions is recorded from 1786.

Wiktionary
twenty

n. 1 (context colloquial English) A banknote with a denomination of 20. 2 (context CB slang English) 10-20 (location). 3 (context military English) A set of twenty push-ups. num. The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

WordNet
twenty

adj. denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units [syn: 20, xx]

twenty
  1. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one [syn: 20, XX]

  2. a United States bill worth 20 dollars [syn: twenty dollar bill]

Wikipedia
Twenty (Lynyrd Skynyrd album)

Twenty is the ninth studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd released in 1997. The title of the album refers to the fact that it had been twenty years since the plane crash which killed original lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines.

For this album the band brought in two Southern rock veterans, Rickey Medlocke, who had been a drummer for the band briefly before forming Blackfoot, and Hughie Thomasson of the Outlaws. The track "Travelin' Man" is the first studio recording of the song from the original band's 1976 live album One More From The Road. Making use of modern technology, the band was able to use original singer Ronnie Van Zant's vocal tracks on parts of the song, in order to create a duet between Johnny and Ronnie. The Album Cover is a fictional drawing of Monument Valley on the Navajo reservation.

Twenty (Robert Cray album)

Twenty is a blues album by Robert Cray. It was released on 24 May 2005, through Sanctuary Records.

Twenty (Boyz II Men album)

Twenty is the tenth studio album by American R&B group Boyz II Men. The album was released in the United States on October 25, 2011. The first single was "More Than You'll Ever Know" featuring Charlie Wilson. As of September 2011, the single was the most added song to radio sets on urban adult contemporary radio stations. The album featured 13 new material songs and nine rerecorded Boyz II Men classics. It was produced Tim & Bob, Babyface, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Teddy Riley. The album debuted at number 20 on the Billboard 200, selling 18,400 copies in its first week.

Twenty (film)

Twenty is a 2015 South Korean coming-of-age film starring Kim Woo-bin, Lee Junho and Kang Ha-neul. It was written and directed by Lee Byeong-heon, his second feature after the 2012 indie Cheer Up, Mr. Lee.

Twenty (Jebediah album)

Twenty is a 2015 compilation album by Australian alternative rock band, Jebediah. To celebrate the band's twentieth anniversary Jebediah undertook a national tour of Australia and released a collection of twenty songs which spans their entire catalogue. The songs were selected by the band, ranging from "Tracksuit" which appeared on the band's first release, Twitch in 1996 through to " She's Like a Comet", from their fifth studio album, Kosciusko.

The album was released on 29 May 2015 by Sony Music Australia, as a digital download, double CD and double vinyl album, and peaked at No. 32 on the ARIA Album Charts.

Usage examples of "twenty".

I knew he usually aborted only married women, in their late twenties and thirties.

Is there ony bit ye can bide at, not abune twenty miles frae Woodilee?

To accelerate at thirty-two gee, the capsule must be about twenty meters from the disk to keep effective gravity inside to one gee.

The disk pulled us towards it at twenty-one gee, the acceleration of the ship pulled us away from it at twenty gee, and we sat there in the middle at a snug and comfortable standard gravity.

As he studied her sleeping face, he ached inside to stop the car and take hold of her, to whisper her name against her mouth, to tell her how much he loved her, how much he wanted her, so much that already his body-He cursed under his breath, reminding himself that he was closer now to forty than to twenty and that the turbulent, uncontrollable reaction of his body to the merest thought of touching her was the reaction of an immature boy, not an adult man.

Cook three or four large perch for twenty minutes with a bunch of parsley in salted and acidulated water.

Not long after his departure--that is, between eight and nine--the boy was taken ill and put into bed with all the violent symptoms which are invariably produced by that most deadly of vegetable poisons, aconitine, and he died at twenty minutes past eleven the same night.

And why should this power of acquiring languages be greater at two years than at twenty, but that for many generations we have learnt to speak at about this age, and hence look to learn to do so again on reaching it, just as we looked to making eyes, when the time came at which we were accustomed to make them.

Fireworks, a rocket in a silver arc, white actinic fire in high parabola, its origin somewhere to the left, its terminus twenty yards behind Johan Schmidt.

In one instance a young man had slept so close to his camp-fire that the hair from one side of his head was singed completely away, giving him an appearance so strange that he was promptly given a nickname of twenty or more consonant sounds, which, translated, meant: The Man Who is Half Old Because He Is Half Bald--an appellation acutely resented by the young person concerned, who was rather vain and something of a favourite among the girls.

In doses of from twenty to sixty drops of the fluid extract, administered in a cup of warm water or herb-tea on going to bed, we have found it very effectual for breaking up recent colds.

Temporary relief may be given by administering one-quarter of a grain of morphine, or ten to twenty drops of chloroform in a teaspoonful of glycerine, slightly diluted, taken in one dose.

The good-looking woman in her late twenties was on the scene in an instant, apologizing to Hel and admonishing the child all at the same time.

This glorious deliverance would be speedily improved and magnified by the pious art of the clergy of Jerusalem, and the active credulity of the Christian world and, at the distance of twenty years, a Roman historian, careless of theological disputes, might adorn his work with the specious and splendid miracle.

This human cargo represents a weight of about twenty tons, which is equivalent to that of thirty persons, two boars, three sows, twelve piglets, thirty fowls, ten dogs, twenty rats, a hundred balled or potted breadfruit and banana plants, and twelve tons of watergourds, seeds, yams, tubers, coconuts, adzes and weapons.