twenty

The word “twenty” means the number after nineteen and before twenty-one; 20. In plain terms, the number 20, or informally a twenty-dollar (or -pound) bill.

“Twenty” is pronounced TWEHN-tee (/ˈtwɛnti/ in IPA).

Here is “twenty” used in a sentence: “She turned twenty last week.”

Depending on how it is used, “twenty” can be a num and a noun.

The word “twenty” comes from Old English. From Old English twēntiġ, literally "two tens," an old Germanic compound built the same way as thirty and forty.

“Twenty” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A1 level.

“Twenty” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: the number after nineteen and before twenty-one; 20.

The number 20 is spelled t-w-e-n-t-y, 'twenty.' People sometimes muddle it with 'twelve' (12) or misspell it as 'twentie,' but the correct written form is twenty. The ordinal version, used to show position in a sequence, is 'twentieth,' written 20th — as in the twentieth of the month.

Twenty is written as XX in Roman numerals. It combines two X symbols, each representing ten, which are added together to make 20. Roman numerals had no zero, so larger numbers were built by grouping letters like this. The neighbouring values are XXI for 21 and XIX for 19.

Twenty is a cardinal number, meaning it counts quantity — twenty apples, twenty years. The matching ordinal number, which shows position in a sequence, is 'twentieth' (20th). Cardinals answer the question 'how many,' while ordinals answer 'which one in order.' Both share the same root but do different jobs.