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twenties

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twen·ty  (twnt, twn-)
n.
1. The cardinal number equal to 2 × 10.
2. twenties
a. A decade or the numbers from 20 to 29: The children are now in their twenties. The temperature dipped into the twenties.
b. often Twenties The decade from 20 to 29 in a century.
3. A twenty-dollar bill.
[Middle English, from Old English twntig; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]
twenty adj. & pron.
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Noun1.twentiestwenties - the time of life between 20 and 30
mid-twenties
time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
adulthood, maturity - the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
2.twentiestwenties - the decade from 1920 to 1929
1920s
decade, decennary, decennium - a period of 10 years


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When he got home, he gave four of the twenties to his mother, asking her to keep them for him.
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Then I heard the pattering of their feet, and they came round me by tens and by twenties, and fawned upon me.
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