Word Meanings - TWENTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
twintich, OS. tw, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. 1. One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men. 2. An indefinite number more or less that twenty. Shak. Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man. Bacon.
Related words: (words related to TWENTY)
- BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - COULD
Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present. - TWICE
see -wards), twie, AS. twiges, twiwa; akin to twi- two, G. 1. Two times; once and again. He twice essayed to cast his son in gold. Dryden. 2. Doubly; in twofold quantity or degree; as, twice the sum; he is twice as fortunate as his neighbor. - TWENTY
twintich, OS. tw, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. 1. One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men. 2. An indefinite number more or less that twenty. Shak. Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man. Bacon. - INDEFINITE
Too numerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate. Indefinite article , the word a or an, used with nouns to denote any one of a common or general class. -- - NUMBERLESS
Innumerable; countless. - MAXIMILIAN
A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter. - INDEFINITENESS
The quality of being indefinite. - NUMBER
The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of - NUMBERS
of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews. - NUMBERER
One who numbers. - INDEFINITELY
In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely. If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it. Ray. - TWENTY-FOURMO
Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc. -- n. - TWENTYFOLD
Twenty times as many. - NUMBEROUS
Numerous. Drant. - OUTNUMBER
To exceed in number. - ANTENUMBER
A number that precedes another. Bacon. - MISNUMBER
To number wrongly. - UNNUMBERED
Not numbered; not counted or estimated; innumerable. Dryden.