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.