Topic: NUMBERS
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| Language: | Old English |
| Origin: | twentig |
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twen‧ty
1HMN the number 20 : a small village twenty miles from Nairobi I'm nearly twenty (=20 years old).
a small village twenty miles from NairobiI'm nearly twenty (=20 years old).2TMC the years from 1920 to 1929 : In the twenties the business expanded.
the twenties
[plural] also the 20s, the 1920sIn the twenties the business expanded.5 [countable] a piece of paper money that is worth £20 or $20 : I offered the driver a twenty.
I offered the driver a twenty. —twentieth adjective, pronoun: in the twentieth century her twentieth birthday
in the twentieth centuryher twentieth birthday