20s en · NOUN
Meanings
- (plural, plural-only) The decade of the 2020s.
- (plural, plural-only) The decade of the 1920s.
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(plural, plural-only) A range of the numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
In his 20s he was a freelance window cleaner, 50p a pane, when one of his clients – a lady in Aberystwyth – asked if he would clear out a vacated property she managed.
2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2025:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| '20s | alternative | lexicographic | |
| 20's | alternative | lexicographic |
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