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Twenty (tw&ebreve_;nt&ybreve_;), a. [OE. twenty, AS. twēntig, twentig; akin to OFries. twintich, OS. twēntig, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. twai tigjis; that is, two tens. See Twain, Two, and Ten.] 1. One more than nineteen; twice ten; as, twenty men.
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2. An indefinite number more or less that twenty. Shak.
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Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man.
Bacon.
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