Definitions
being one more than nineteen
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?”
“The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.”
“Of course I can do them just the same as the others—technically there's nothing whatever against it. Only no one ever heard of soft flims for anything like that—only for fives or tens or at the most a twenty.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Score, numerically”6 letters
02“Two tens”6 letters
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