Twenty-two

Definition: Twenty-two

Twenty-two

Adjective

1. Being two more than twenty.

Noun

1. The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-one and one.

2. A .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "twenty-two" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonyms: Twenty-two

Crosswords: Twenty-two

Pidgin English (twenty-two).

And twenty-two husbands being murdered by their devoted wives. (Poirot; writing credit: Clive Exton; Anthony Horowitz)

The palace has seven hundred bedrooms, twenty-two swimming pools and an indoor polo field! (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

Yeah, so just because you're twenty-two and hung doesn't mean that you can- (The Birdcage; writing credit: Jean Poiret; Francis Veber)

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Books

• A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-Two Years With a World-Famous Detective (reference)

• Room to Grow: Twenty-Two Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradozes of Raising Young Children (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Twenty-two (reference)

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Figure 26. The Leger dredge sounder in the descending position. This sampling device was designed to retain a portion of the captured sample even if a rock held the jaws open after being activated to snap shut. This sounder was tested twenty-two times in 1903 on the PRINCESS ALICE II between depths of 18 and 4560 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The submarine's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Richard H. O'Kane (center), poses with the twenty-two aircrewmen that Tang rescued off Truk during the carrier air raids there on 29 April-1 May 1944. The photograph was taken upon Tang's return to Pearl Harbor from her second war patrol, in May 1944. Those present are identified in Photo # 80-G-227987 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY.

I've got seven children, thirty-nine gran'children an' twenty-two great-gran' children : Well ... Credit: Library of Congress.

The cricket match played at Hoboken on October 3-6, 1859, between the All England Eleven and the United States Twenty-Two A baseball match at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken. Credit: Library of Congress.

Picking peas near Nipomo, California. Wages: twenty-two cents a hamper. Credit: Library of Congress.

Son of agricultural day laborer with his twenty-two caliber rifle and home-cured tobacco. McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Outskirts of Firebaugh, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California. Six families with twenty-two children live in this house. Cotton workers. "He's good (the boss) he lets us live here without paying rent". Credit: Library of Congress.

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936. Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

Twenty-two Chinese banks have become members of Visa and MasterCard organizations. (references)

Two hundred twenty-two proposals, of which 133 for energy efficiency, were approved. (references)

Economic History

Estonia

Independence lasted twenty-two years. (references)

Sri Lanka

Over the past twenty-two years, several hundred foreign investors have invested in the country but foreign investment flows have been weak in the past few years due to economic and political problems. (references)

Political Economy

Finland

The party re-entered government in the 1980s after a twenty-two year hiatus, and in the most recent elections gained seven seats, the largest increase of any party. (references)

Trade

Georgia

To date, twenty-two banks have been created with the inclusion of foreign capital. (references)

Honduras

The country's twenty-two commercial banks control an estimated $3.4 billion in assets. (references)

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Beginning with "twenty-two": twenty-two-fold, twenty-two-function, twenty-two-inch, twenty-two-room, twenty-two-year, twenty-two-year-old, twenty-two-year-olds.

Ending with "twenty-two": catch-twenty-two.

Asturian

ventitres. (various references)

Basque

hogeitabi. (various references)

Bemba

amakumi yabili na fibili. (various references)

Cebuano

kawhaag duha. (various references)

Chamorro

bente i dos. (various references)

Chinese 

二十二. (various references)

Danish

toogtyve. (various references)

Dutch

tweeëntwintigjarige zonnecyclus (Hale cycle, magnetic cycle, twenty-two year cycle, twenty-two year Hale cycle, twenty-two year magnetic cycle, twenty-two year magnetic Hale cycle). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

ishcai chunca inshcai. (various references)

Faeroese

tvey og tjúga. (various references)

Finnish

kaksikymmentäkaksi. (various references)

French

vingt-deux. (various references)

French Canadian

vingt-deux. (various references)

Frisian

twa en tweintich. (various references)

German

Periode von 22/23 Jahren (Hale cycle, magnetic cycle, twenty-two year cycle, twenty-two year Hale cycle, twenty-two year magnetic cycle, twenty-two year magnetic Hale cycle). (various references)

Greek 

ηλιακός κύκλος εικοσιδύο ετών (Hale cycle, magnetic cycle, twenty-two year cycle, twenty-two year Hale cycle, twenty-two year magnetic cycle, twenty-two year magnetic Hale cycle). (various references)

Haitian Creole

vennde. (various references)

Hungarian

huszonkettõ. (various references)

Kongo

makumole ye zole. (various references)

Korean 

스물둘. (various references)

Luganda

abiri (twenty). (various references)

Macedonian

dvaeset i dva. (various references)

Maori

rua tekau rua. (various references)

Mohawk

tewahsen-tekeni. (various references)

Pidgin English

twenty-two. (various references)

Pig Latin

enty-twotway

Provencal

vint-e-dos. (various references)

Romansch

ventgadus. (various references)

Ruanda

mirongo ibiri na kabiri. (various references)

Samoan

luasefululua. (various references)

Spanish

veintidos. (various references)

Swedish

tjugotvåårig solcykel (Hale cycle, magnetic cycle, twenty-two year cycle, twenty-two year Hale cycle, twenty-two year magnetic cycle, twenty-two year magnetic Hale cycle), dubbla solfläckscykeln (Hale cycle, magnetic cycle, twenty-two year cycle, twenty-two year Hale cycle, twenty-two year magnetic cycle, twenty-two year magnetic Hale cycle). (various references)

Tagalog

dalawampu't-dalawa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Twenty-two" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: twentytwo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: twenty.

-4 letters: netty, tenty, toney, towny.

-5 letters: enow, nett, newt, note, nowt, tent, tone, tony, tote, town, towy, tyne, went, wont, wyte, yett, yowe.