# twenty
## English
### Alternative forms

* Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
* Roman numerals: XX

### Etymology

From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) +‎ *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtwɛnti/, [ˈtw̥ɛ̃nti]
* (General American) enPR: twĕnʹtē, IPA: /ˈtwɛnti/, [ˈtw̥ɛɾ̃i], /ˈtwɛni/, [ˈtw̥ɛ̃ɾ̃i]
* (parts of the US and Canada) IPA: /ˈtwʌn(t)i/, /ˈtwʊn(t)i/
* (Philippines, nonstandard, colloquial) IPA: /ˈtweɪnti/
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* Rhymes: -ɛnti, -ʌnti

### Numeral

twenty
* The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
    Synonym: onescore (rare)

#### Derived terms

* five-and-twenty
* five-twenties
* four and twenty
* four-and-twenty
* four twenty
* four-twenty
* I am twenty years old
* I'm twenty years old
* ten will get you twenty
* twenties
* twentieth
* twenty bucks is twenty bucks
* twenty dollars is twenty dollars
* twenty-five/eight
* twenty-five-eight
* twenty-five-thousander
* twentyfold
* twenty-foot equivalent unit
* twenty-four hour day
* twenty-minute egg
* twenty-nail dystrophy
* twenty questions
* twenty-some
* twenty-something
* twenty-three hundred
* twenty to the dozen
* twenty-twenty
* twenty-twenty hindsight
* twenty-two hundred
* twenty whole dollars
* twenty winks

#### Descendants

* Hawaiian Creole: twenty
* Tok Pisin: twenti

#### Translations
### Noun

twenty (plural twenties)
* (in the plural) The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
    She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
* (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.
    The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
** 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎:The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
* (CB slang) 10-20 (location).
    What’s your twenty, good buddy?
** 2012, Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani, 0:54 from the start, in Settle Down‎ (music video), No Doubt (actor), Vevo:What's your twenty? Where's your brain? Checking in to check you out Concerned about your whereabouts
* (UK, historical, military) An old English division of infantry.

#### Translations
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* thewenti, thwenti, tuenti, tuentie, tweinti, twenti, twentig, twentie, twenntiȝ, twentti, twinti, twonti, twontie

### Etymology

From Old English twēntiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz; equivalent to twei +‎ -ty.

### Numeral

twenty
* twenty
** c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 23–24:At nyght was come into that hostelrye Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignyeThere came at nightfall to that hostelry Some nine and twenty in a company

#### Descendants

* English: twenty
** Hawaiian Creole: twenty
** Tok Pisin: twenti
* Scots: twinty, twenty, tuenty
* Yola: dwanty

### References

* “twentī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.