- 12
- There are only twelve of these rare animals left.
- twelve of Sweden’s top financial experts
- Twenty people were invited but only twelve turned up.
- Can you lend me twelve dollars?
- a twelve-month contract
- Look at page twelve.
- Twelve and three is fifteen.
- Two twelves are twenty-four.
- I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a twelve?
- The bulbs are planted in nines and twelves (= groups of nine or twelve).
- We moved to America when I was twelve (= twelve years old).
- Shall we meet at twelve (= at twelve o'clock), then?
Word OriginOld English twelf(e), from the base of two + a second element (probably expressing the sense ‘left over’); of Germanic origin and related to Dutch twaalf and German zwölf. Compare with eleven.Definitions on the go
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