twenty
See also: Twenty
English
[edit]| 200 | ||||
| ← 10 | ← 19 | 20 | 21 → | 30 → |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | ||||
| Cardinal: twenty Ordinal: twentieth Abbreviated ordinal: 20th Adverbial: twenty times Multiplier: twentyfold Germanic collective: score Greek collective prefix: icosa-, icosi- Latinate collective prefix: viginti- | ||||
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtwɛnti/, [ˈtw̥ɛ̃nti]
- (General American) enPR: twĕnʹtē, IPA(key): /ˈtwɛnti/, [ˈtw̥ɛɾ̃i], /ˈtwɛni/, [ˈtw̥ɛ̃ɾ̃i]
- (parts of the US and Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtwʌn(t)i/, /ˈtwʊn(t)i/
- (Philippines, nonstandard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈtweɪnti/
- (South India, colloquial) IPA(key): /ʈoɳˈʈiː/
- Rhymes: -ɛnti, -ʌnti
Numeral
[edit]twenty
- The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
- Synonym: onescore (rare)
Derived terms
[edit]- five-and-twenty
- five-twenties
- four and twenty
- four-and-twenty
- four twenty
- four-twenty
- I am twenty years old
- I'm twenty years old
- ten will get you twenty
- twenties
- twentieth
- twenty bucks is twenty bucks
- twenty dollars is twenty dollars
- twenty-five/eight
- twenty-five-eight
- twenty-five-thousander
- twentyfold
- twenty-foot equivalent unit
- twenty-four hour day
- twenty-minute egg
- twenty-nail dystrophy
- twenty questions
- twenty-some
- twenty-something
- twenty-three hundred
- twenty to the dozen
- twenty-twenty
- twenty-twenty hindsight
- twenty-two hundred
- twenty whole dollars
- twenty winks
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]cardinal number
|
Noun
[edit]twenty (plural twenties)
- (in the plural) The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
- She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
- (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
[edit]a banknote with a denomination of 20
|
CB slang: location
Hawaiian Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Numeral
[edit]twenty
- twenty (the cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one)
- 2000, “Jesus Guys 1”, in Joseph Grimes, transl., Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament[3], Wycliffe Bible Translators, →ISBN, page 312:
- Dat time had like hundred twenty peopo dat trus Jesus. Dey wen come togedda, an Peter wen stand up fo talk.
- And in those days Peter rose up amongst the brothers, (a crowd of people about one hundred and twenty in number) and declared…
Middle English
[edit]| ← 10 | ← 19 | 20 | 30 → | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2[a], [b] | ||||
| Cardinal: twenty Ordinal: twentithe | ||||
Alternative forms
[edit]- thewenti, thwenti, tuenti, tuentie, tweinti, twenti, twentig, twentie, twenntiȝ, twentti, twinti, twonti, twontie
Etymology
[edit]From Old English twēntiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz; equivalent to twei + -ty.
Numeral
[edit]twenty
- twenty (the cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one)
- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- “twentī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Scots
[edit]Numeral
[edit]twenty
- alternative form of twinty
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛnti
- Rhymes:English/ɛnti/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ʌnti
- Rhymes:English/ʌnti/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English numerals
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English colloquialisms
- English terms with quotations
- English slang
- British English
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Military
- English cardinal numbers
- en:Twenty
- Hawaiian Creole terms derived from English
- Hawaiian Creole lemmas
- Hawaiian Creole numerals
- Hawaiian Creole cardinal numbers
- Hawaiian Creole terms with quotations
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms suffixed with -ty
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English numerals
- Middle English cardinal numbers
- Middle English terms with quotations
- Scots lemmas
- Scots numerals
- Scots cardinal numbers