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TWENTY-FIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-four and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("twenty-five" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being five more than twenty
Synonyms:
25; twenty-five; xxv
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
I estimated its circumference at twenty-five miles, its width as varying from two to five miles; while my most conservative calculation placed on its beaches two hundred thousand seals.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Thirty rounds had been fought in an hour and twenty-five minutes, and the rain was pelting down harder than ever.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With this as our support, we were soon able to scramble up the jagged wall until we found ourselves upon the small grassy platform, some twenty-five feet each way, which formed the summit.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There exist twenty-five territories, including sovereign states, overseas departments and dependencies.
(Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)
Stevenson is fast enough, but he couldn’t drop from the twenty-five line, and a three-quarter who can’t either punt or drop isn’t worth a place for pace alone.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is now half after one; we drove out of the inn-yard at Tetbury as the town clock struck eleven; and I defy any man in England to make my horse go less than ten miles an hour in harness; that makes it exactly twenty-five.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
These provisions laid in, we went on through a great noise and uproar that confused my weary head beyond description, and over a bridge which, no doubt, was London Bridge (indeed I think he told me so, but I was half asleep), until we came to the poor person's house, which was a part of some alms-houses, as I knew by their look, and by an inscription on a stone over the gate which said they were established for twenty-five poor women.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For the past twenty-five years, spotted owl habitat preservation has focused on keeping 70% or more of the total ground area covered by natural tree canopy, a tree density that leaves forests prone to wildfires and trees more likely to die during droughts.
(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)
A contrite heart and ten nobles to holy mother Church may stave off perdition; but he hath a pardon of the first degree, with a twenty-five livre benison, so that I doubt if he will so much as feel a twinge of purgatory.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Very well, you can have it," said Jo, handing back the story with a satisfied air, for after the dollar-a-column work, even twenty-five seemed good pay.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
