Twen″ty (?), a. [OE. twenty, AS. tw�ntig, twentig; akin to OFris. twintich, OS. tw�ntig, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. twai tigjis; that is, two tens. See Twain, Two, and Ten.] 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.