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twenty-five
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[ adjective ] being five more than twenty
Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Nearly twenty-five years before , Captain_John_Davis had noted , as he sailed near the Arctic_Circle , `` a very great gulf , the water whirling and roaring , as_it_were the meeting of tides '' . (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)The police credited him with twenty-five murders but he was never brought to trial for one of them . (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)In Dunston the rent would run close_to two_hundred a month ; in Medfield , perhaps twenty-five less , not all_of it paid by Thayer , who could charge off one room on his expense_account . (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)After a time , he straightened again , brushing the red Permian dust from his hands , slapping it from his six dollar levis and his tailored , twenty-five dollar shirt . (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)Carpenters all wanted steady work and at the moment every mother's_son for twenty miles around that could hammer nails for twenty-five dollars a day was working_on the school job . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-four and one
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