twenties

twen·ty (tw

, tw

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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Noun	1.	twenties - 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.	twenties - the decade from 1920 to 1929 1920s decade, decennary, decennium - a period of 10 years

Translations

twenties [ˈtwɛntiz] npl

(= age) to be in one's twenties → avoir la vingtaine
a woman in her twenties → un femme d'une vingtaine d'années
I really enjoyed my early twenties → Je me suis beaucoup amusé quand j'avais vingt, vingt-cinq ans.

(= 1920s) the twenties → les années vingt
in the twenties → dans les années vingt
the late twenties → la fin des années vingt
the early twenties → le début des années vingt

(= temperature)
The temperature sometimes gets up to the high twenties → De temps en temps la température frôle les trente degrés.
It rarely gets warmer here than the low twenties → Ici la température dépasse rarement les vingt degrés.
in the twenties → dans les vingt degrés

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When he got home, he gave four of the twenties to his mother, asking her to keep them for him.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

In the bottom of the nest are thousands of dollar bills -- and two-dollar bills -- and five-dollar bills -- and tens, and twenties, and fifties.

The Marvelous Land of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

Then I heard the pattering of their feet, and they came round me by tens and by twenties, and fawned upon me.

Nada The Lily by Haggard, Rider H. View in context

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