Twenty

a. [A-S. twĕntig, twentig, for twāntig, O. Sax. twĕntig, O. Fries. twintich, twintecht, D. & L. Ger. twintig, O. H. Ger. zweinzic, M. H. Ger. zweinzie, zweinze, N. H. Ger. zwenzig, Goth. twaitigjus; composed of Goth. twai, A-S. twegen, two, and Goth. tigjus, tigus, A-S. & O. Sax. tig, a decade.]

1. One more than nineteen; twice ten; as, twenty men; twenty years.
2. An indefinite number; — used proverbially.

Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man. Bacon.