twenty
/ˈtwɛnti/ [-ɛɾ̃i] sustantivo C2En español: veintena, billete de veinte
- The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29). · She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
- A banknote with a denomination of 20. · The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
- 10-20 (location). · What’s your twenty, good buddy?
Plural twenties
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Number one hundred and twenty-seven is ‘Government’; which at least makes sense, though somewhat irrelevant to ourselves and Professor Moriarty.
He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was finished they had a big bag of green silk more than twenty feet long.
“Nineteen or twenty at the most.”
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