twenty meaning
EN
[ˈtwɛnti] [ˈtwɛn(t)i] [ˈtwʌn(t)i] [ˈtwʊn(t)i] [ˈtʍɛɾ̃i] [ˈtʍʌɾ̃i] [ˈtʍʊɾ̃i] [-ɛnti] [-ʌnti] 
UK US WTwenty
- NounPLtwentiesSUF-ty
- (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.
- The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
- (CB slang) 10-20 (location).
- What’s your twenty, good buddy?
- (military) A set of twenty push-ups.
- Drop and give me twenty, Ric! (Recruit.)
- (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally snuffed it.
- ..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have gone north about twenty times over than come athwart you.
- Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
- He backpacked around Europe to find himself in his early twenties.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of twenty in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -ty
- Words suffixed with -ty
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Numerals
- Morphemes
- en twenty-five
- en twenty-one
- en twenty-two
- en twenty-eight
- en twenty-six
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "twenty" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a numeral.