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twenty-four

numeralattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌtwɛntiˈfɔː//
  • United States//ˌtwɛntiˈfɔɹ//
  • United States/[-ɾi-]/
  • //ˌtwɛntiˈfo(ː)ɹ//
  • //ˌtwɛntiˈfoə//

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.

numeral

  1. 1

    The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.

    "The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay hot for a long time."

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).