Meanings
alternative twenty four
- The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.
1 more example
"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."
1985, Michael Swanwick, “Boneseeker”, in In the Drift (New Ace Science Fiction Specials; series 3), New York, N.Y.: Ace Science Fiction Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2017, →ISBN, page 80Synonyms: four and twenty, 24, XXIV
Synonyms & antonyms
numeralThe cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebeing four more than twenty
nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-three and one
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans vier-en-twintig
- vier-en-twintigcardinal number
Arabic أَرْبَعَة وَعِشْرُون
- أَرْبَعَة وَعِشْرُون (ʔarbaʕa wa-ʕišrūn)cardinal number
Basque hogeita lau
- hogeita laucardinal number
Bengali চব্বিশ
- চব্বিশ (cobbiś)cardinal number
Catalan vint-i-quatre
- vint-i-quatrecardinal number
Chinese Cantonese 二十四
- 二十四 (ji⁶ sap⁶ sei³)cardinal number
Chinese Mandarin 二十四
- 二十四 (èrshísì)cardinal number
Czech dvacet čtyři, čtyřiadvacet
- dvacet čtyřicardinal number
- čtyřiadvacetcardinal number
Danish fireogtyve
- fireogtyvecardinal number
Dutch vierentwintig
- vierentwintigcardinal number
Esperanto dudek kvar
- dudek kvarcardinal number
Estonian kakskümmend neli
- kakskümmend nelicardinal number
Finnish kaksikymmentäneljä
- kaksikymmentäneljäcardinal number
French vingt-quatre
- vingt-quatrecardinal number
German vierundzwanzig
- vierundzwanzigcardinal number
Greek είκοσι τέσσερα
- είκοσι τέσσερα (eíkosi téssera)cardinal number
Hebrew עשרים־וארבעה
- עשרים־וארבעה (esrím və-arbá)cardinal number
Hindi चौबीस
- चौबीस (caubīs)cardinal number
Hungarian huszonnégy
- huszonnégycardinal number
Icelandic tuttugu og fjórir
- tuttugu og fjórircardinal number
Indonesian dua puluh empat
- dua puluh empatcardinal number
Irish fiche a ceathair
- fiche a ceathaircardinal number
Italian ventiquattro
- ventiquattrocardinal number
Japanese 二十四
- 二十四 (nijūshi)cardinal number
Korean 스물넷, 이십사
- 스물넷 (seumullet)cardinal number
- 이십사 (isipsa)cardinal number
Latin vigintiquattuor
- vigintiquattuorcardinal number
Malay dua puluh empat, empat likur
- dua puluh empatcardinal number
- empat likurcardinal number
Norwegian Bokmål tjuefire
- tjuefirecardinal number
Persian بیست و چهار
- بیست و چهار (bist-o-čahâr)cardinal number
Polish dwadzieścia cztery
- dwadzieścia czterycardinal number
Portuguese vinte e quatro
- vinte e quatrocardinal number
Punjabi ਚੌਵੀ
- ਚੌਵੀ (cauvī)cardinal number
Romanian douăzeci și patru
- douăzeci și patrucardinal number
Russian два́дцать четы́ре
- два́дцать четы́ре (dvádcatʹ četýre)cardinal number
Slovak dvadsať štyri
- dvadsať štyricardinal number
Spanish veinticuatro
- veinticuatrocardinal number
Swahili ishirini na nne
- ishirini na nnecardinal number
Swedish tjugofyra
- tjugofyracardinal number
Tagalog beintikuwatro
- beintikuwatrocardinal number
Tamil இருபத்தி நான்கு
- இருபத்தி நான்கு (irupatti nāṉku)cardinal number
Thai ยี่สิบสี่
- ยี่สิบสี่ (yîi-sìp-sìi)cardinal number
Turkish yirmi dört
- yirmi dörtcardinal number
Ukrainian два́дцять чоти́ри
- два́дцять чоти́ри (dvádcjatʹ čotýry)cardinal number
Urdu چوبیس
- چوبیس (caubīs)cardinal number
Vietnamese hai mươi tư
- hai mươi tưcardinal number
Welsh pedwar ar hugain, pedair ar hugain
- pedwar ar hugaincardinal number
- pedair ar hugaincardinal number
- dau ddeg pedwarcardinal number
- dau ddeg pedaircardinal number
Yiddish פֿיר און צוואַנציק
- פֿיר און צוואַנציק (fir un tsvantsik)cardinal number
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with twenty-four
Cite this entry
twenty-four. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-four
“twenty-four.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-four. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “twenty-four,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-four.
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