twenty-four

Meanings

1. 1
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   the cardinal number equal to two tens plus four; 24

   A day contains twenty-four hours.

A compound of twenty + four. Twenty descends from Old English twentig, literally 'two tens,' while four comes from Old English feower. Modern English normally hyphenates compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine when they are written as words.

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