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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A United States bill worth 20 dollars
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("twenty" is a kind of...):
bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("twenty" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units
Synonyms:
20; twenty; xx
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
It is written in letters, not figures,—twenty thousand.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It will take him time to arrive here—see, it is twenty minutes past one—and there are yet some times before he can hither come, be he never so quick.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She had never seen my mother, but she knew her to be not yet twenty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"A good twenty miles," said I.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Where are the mothers of these twenty and odd men on the Ghost?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I made an estimate of the sack, and I—ah—should say it weighed about twenty pounds.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
As the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her father’s young wife.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The eicosanoids are a family of lipophilic hormones derived from the twenty carbon fatty acid arachidonic acid.
(Eicosanoid Metabolism Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure, therefore you need not conceal your age.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“He’s not twenty yet, and it’s no doing of mine that he should be here.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
