Meaning
4 senses(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.
двадцаткаdvadcatka
10-20 (location).
What’s your twenty, good buddy?
(UK, historical)An old English division of infantry.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
- a United States bill worth 20 dollars
Examples
1062 sentencesHe wrote this novel at twenty.
Він написав цей роман коли йому було двадцять років.
deEr schrieb diesen Roman mit Zwanzig.
She got married when she was twenty-five.
Вона одружилася, коли їй було двадцять п'ять років.
ruОна вышла замуж, когда ей было двадцать пять.
deSie heiratete im Alter von 25.
My mother got married at the age of twenty.
Моя мати вийшла заміж у віці двадцяти років.
ruМоя мать вышла замуж в двадцатилетнем возрасте.
deMeine Mutter heiratete mit zwanzig Jahren.
Out of twenty students, only one has read the book.
Із двадцяти студентів, лише один прочитав книжку.
ruИз двадцати студентов только один прочёл книгу.
deVon zwanzig Schülern hat lediglich einer das Buch gelesen.
I have written to him once a month for almost twenty years.
Я писав йому раз на місяць протягом майже двадцяти років.
ruЯ писал ему раз в месяц в течение почти 20 лет.
deIch habe ihm fast 20 Jahre lang einmal monatlich geschrieben.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tenFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: twentiesSynonyms
3 synonyms- the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one:20XX
- a United States bill worth 20 dollars:twenty dollar bill
Collocations
12 patterns- twenty years
- twenty minutes
- twenty miles miles
- age of twenty
- twenty years old
- for twenty years
- more than twenty
- twenty four
- twenty dollars
- was twenty years
- in his twenties
- twenty miles