English Dictionary Grammar. Definition of 'twenty-five' twenty-five in American English. (ËtwentiËfaiv, ËtwĘn-) noun. 1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 5. 2. a symbol for this number, as 25 or XXV. 3. a set of this many persons or things. adjective. 4. amounting to 25 in number. Most material Š 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
Yes, you put a hyphen between twenty and five: twenty-five. Does twenty five need a hyphen? As 25 is a compound number in between 21 and 99 it needs a hyphen; therefore writing 25 in full is twenty-five.
Here is the rule: when you're combining two or more words to form a compound adjective in front of a noun, put hyphens between these words. Examples: Lara handed me a 15-foot pole. An eighteen-inch monitor is too big for my desk. Emergency room nurses work 12-hour shifts. Anthony swung his five-pound hammer.
The Chicago Manual of Style recommends spelling out the numbers zero through one hundred and using figures thereafterâexcept for whole numbers used in combination with hundred, thousand, hundred thousand, million, billion, and beyond (e.g., two hundred; twenty-eight thousand; three hundred thousand; one million ).
Always hyphenate the numbers 21 to 99 when writing them out as words: I have twenty-one pairs of novelty socks. My grandma is sixty-seven years old. I have ninety-nine problems, but none involve a female dog. Do the same when writing an ordinal version of one of these numbers: My forty-first birthday was the best day ever.
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twenâ˘ty-five (twenⲠtÄ fÄŤvâ˛, twunⲠ-), n. a cardinal number, 20 plus 5. a symbol for this number, as 25 or XXV. a set of this many persons or things. adj. amounting to 25 in number. 'twenty-five' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): classic car - gee - pachisi - two bits - two-bit.
