Word Meanings - TWENTYFOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Twenty times as many.
Related words: (words related to TWENTYFOLD)
- TIMESERVING
Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power. - 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. - TIMESERVER
One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense. - TIMESAVING
Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient. - TWENTY-FOURMO
Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc. -- n. - TWENTYFOLD
Twenty times as many. - BETIME; BETIMES
1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - OFTENTIMES
Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth. - OFTTIMES
Frequently; often. Milton.