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twenty-four

[ twen-tee-fawr, -fohr, twuhn- ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 24 or XXIV.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 24 in number.

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Example Sentences

Inside was Mandelbaum, her twenty-four-year-old son Julius, and her most trusted confidant, Herman Stoude.

A lot has happened along the way, such as twenty-four other Grisham bestsellers, totaling a quarter of a billion books sold.

Twenty-four years and three months is a long time to stay in power, even for a dictator in the Horn of Africa.

Twenty-four Senate Republicans have put out statements saying shutting down the government over Obamacare would be ridiculous.

They find a few ounces of meth in the car and detain him for twenty four hours.

On four bells there are four times as many changes as on three; that is—four times six changes, which makes Twenty-four.

The product is then multiplied by the number of cubic centimeters voided in twenty-four hours and divided by 1000.

The exercise of learning the names of the twenty-four Presidents is a good one for this purpose.

Twenty-four hours at a Genevese hotel were got through by Georgie and her cousin without difficulty.

The meeting took place within twenty-four hours; unfortunately the result was fatal.

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