Definitions

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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following twenty-four and preceding twenty-six.
  • noun A solitaire card game with the goal of making a five-by-five square of cards so that every row and column is valid.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-four and one
  • adjective being five more than twenty

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Examples

  • And I’ll never forget going to my hometown theater and seeing my name twenty-five feet across the screen—the same theater where I used to watch hundreds of movies, growing up.

    Chicken Soup for The Soul: Extraordinary Teens Jack Canfield 2009

  • And I’ll never forget going to my hometown theater and seeing my name twenty-five feet across the screen—the same theater where I used to watch hundreds of movies, growing up.

    Chicken Soup for The Soul: Extraordinary Teens Jack Canfield 2009

  • One way or another, every ship in the invasion fleet got the word within twenty-five minutes.

    The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

  • One way or another, every ship in the invasion fleet got the word within twenty-five minutes.

    The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

  • One way or another, every ship in the invasion fleet got the word within twenty-five minutes.

    The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

  • But who else is gonna know how to spell the Sisko’s name twenty-five thousand years ago?

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • But who else is gonna know how to spell the Sisko’s name twenty-five thousand years ago?

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • But who else is gonna know how to spell the Sisko’s name twenty-five thousand years ago?

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • But who else is gonna know how to spell the Sisko’s name twenty-five thousand years ago?

    THE WAR OF THE PROPHETS JUDITH REEVES-STEVENS GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS 2000

  • Because Andrade was convicted of two counts of petty theft with a prior, he was sentenced under the California three-strikes law to two sentences of twenty-five years to life to run consecutively.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

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