HOW TO PRONOUNCE
twenty
/ˈtwɛni/
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TWEN-ee: the middle t can disappear.
In TWEN-ee, the n leads directly into ee, without a middle t sound. Keep the opening tw together and the first syllable stressed.
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“We counted twenty chairs around the table.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does twenty mean?
numeral
- The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
noun
- The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
- A banknote with a denomination of 20.
More meanings (3)
noun
- 10-20 (location).
- (historical) An old English division of infantry.
proper noun
- A hamlet in Bourne parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1520).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtwɛni/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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There had not been such snowstorms in twenty years, and the path across the fields was drifted deep from Christmas until March.
Diana gave Anne’s foot a gentle kick under the table, meaning, “Don’t agree—she’ll let it go for twenty if you hold out.”
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Ah, here was a splendid means of escape, for it let directly upon the dock, not twenty feet from the water’s edge.
Within a month from his death the society which he had honored had twenty new members, some of them earnest, determined men.
Peasant women kept the unfashionable babies close, and brought them up, and charming grandmammas of sixty dressed and supped as at twenty.