four-and-twenty

numeral

Twenty-four. (24)

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Meanings

numeral

alternative four and twenty

  1. archaicTwenty-four. (24)

    "He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June,[...]"

    1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 56
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    Ouer the firſt companie the firſt month Ieſboam was chiefe the ſonne of Zabdiel, and vnder him foure and twentie thouſand.

    1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 1 Paralipomenon 27:2, page 863

    Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys,/ Baked in a Pye.

    1744, Sing a Song of Sixpence, in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (earliest known written version)

    Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.

    2005 June 20, “My Party This Way | Faustus”, in The Guardian

Translations

Finnish neljäkolmatta
  • neljäkolmattaarchaic way of saying 24
German vierundzwanzig
  • vierundzwanzigarchaic way of saying 24
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APA

four-and-twenty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/four-and-twenty

MLA

“four-and-twenty.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/four-and-twenty. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “four-and-twenty,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/four-and-twenty.

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