TWENTY-FIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-five mean? 

• TWENTY-FIVE (noun)
  The noun TWENTY-FIVE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-FIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• TWENTY-FIVE (adjective)
  The adjective TWENTY-FIVE has 1 sense:

1. being five more than twenty

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-FIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-FIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

25; twenty-five; XXV

Hypernyms ("twenty-five" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• TWENTY-FIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being five more than twenty

Synonyms:

25; twenty-five; xxv

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

For twenty-five days, working Sundays and holidays, he toiled on "The Shame of the Sun," a long essay of some thirty thousand words.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Almost twenty-five, and nothing to show for it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was a widow when I met her first, though quite young—only twenty-five.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was twenty-five minutes past four.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also, there is a woman who sits in the snow alongside. She is white woman, she is young, very pretty, maybe she is twenty years old, maybe twenty-five years old.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But you see there is a considerable difference in age: Mr. Rochester is nearly forty; she is but twenty-five.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But even so it was twenty-five to eight as we passed Big Ben, and eight struck as we tore down the Brixton Road.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were in all not above twenty-five thousand foot, and six thousand horse; but it was impossible for me to compute their number, considering the space of ground they took up.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In less than five months they had travelled twenty-five hundred miles, during the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days’ rest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)