TWENTY


Meaning of TWENTY in English

(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

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