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[Language: Old English; Origin: twentig]
the number 20
::a small village twenty miles from Nairobi
::I'm nearly twenty (=20 years old) .
the twenties [plural] also the 20s, the 1920s
the years from 1920 to 1929
::In the twenties the business expanded.
the early/mid/late twenties
::The photograph was taken in the late twenties.
be in your twenties
to be aged between 20 and 29
early/mid/late twenties
::She was in her early twenties when I met her.
in the twenties
if the temperature is in the twenties, it is between 20 degrees and 29 degrees
in the low/mid/high twenties
::a warm day, with temperatures in the low twenties
[C] a piece of paper money that is worth ¡ê20 or $20
::I offered the driver a twenty.
-- twentieth adj pron
::in the twentieth century
::her twentieth birthday
::I'm planning to leave on the twentieth (=the 20th day of the month) .