Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - twenty
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Twenty
twenty
(twenties) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Twenty is the number 20. NUM 2. When you talk about the twenties, you are referring to numbers between 20 and 29. For example, if you are in your twenties, you are aged between 20 and 29. If the temperature is in the twenties, the temperature is between 20 and 29 degrees. They’re both in their twenties and both married with children of their own. N-PLURAL 3. The twenties is the decade between 1920 and 1929. It was written in the Twenties, but it still really stands out. N-PLURAL: the N TWENTY-FOUR SEVEN see 24-7
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noun (plural twenties) Etymology: Middle English, from ~, adjective, from Old English twentig, noun, group of 20, from twen- (akin to Old English twa two) + -tig group of 10; akin to Old English tien ten — more at two, ten Date: 13th century 1. — see number table 2. plural the numbers 20 to 29; specifically the years 20 to 29 in a lifetime or century 3. a 20-dollar bill • twentieth adjective or noun • ~ adjective • ~ pronoun, plural in construction ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 the product of two and ten. 2 a symbol for this (20, xx, XX). 3 (in pl.) the numbers from 20 to 29, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life. 4 colloq. a large indefinite number (have told you twenty times). --adj. that amount to twenty. Phrases and idioms twenty-first, -second , etc. the ordinal numbers between twentieth and thirtieth. twenty-one, -two , etc. the cardinal numbers between twenty and thirty. twenty-twenty (or 20/20) 1 denoting vision of normal acuity. 2 colloq. denoting clear perception or hindsight. Derivatives twentieth adj. & n. twentyfold adj. & adv. Etymology: OE twentig (perh. as TWO, -TY(2)) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. двадцать предметов или человек 2. двадцатый размер to wear a twenty —- носить двадцатый размер 3. двадцать лет (о возрасте) 4. двадцатидолларовая банкнота; двадцатифунтовая банкнота 5. (число) двадцать twenty books —- двадцать книг 6. (номер) двадцать, (номер) двадцатый chapter twenty —- двадцатая глава Id: twenty-one, twenty-two, etc —- двадцать один, двадцать два и т.д. Id: twenty-first, twenty-second, etc —- двадцать первый, двадцать второй и т.д. Id: twenty and twenty times —- тысячу раз, без конца Id: twenty-five —- линия, проведенная на площадке на расстоянии двадцати пяти ярдов от каждых ворот (регби) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. num. card. двадцать; twentyone - двадцать один; twentytwo - двадцать два 2. noun двадцать (единиц, штук) ...Англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. twentig "group of twenty," from twegen "two" + -tig "group of ten." Twentieth is O.E. twentigoрa. The card game twenty-one is from Fr. vingt-et-un (1781). Twenty-twenty hindsight is first recorded 1962. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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