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The meaning of TWELVE is a number equal to one more than 11. How to use twelve in a sentence.
I'm catering for twelve on Sunday, all the family are coming. Our office floor space measured twelve metres by ten. Hotel guests are requested to vacate their rooms by twelve noon .
12 (twelve) is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13. Twelve is a superior highly composite number, divisible by the numbers from 1 to 4, and 6. It is the number of years required for an orbital period of Jupiter.
noun. 1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and two. See also number (sense 1) 2. a numeral, 12, XII, etc, representing this number. 3.
Twelve definition: a cardinal number, 10 plus 2.. See examples of TWELVE used in a sentence.
Definition of twelve number in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adj. amounting to 12 in number. bef. 900; Middle English twelve, inflected form of twelf, Old English twelfe literally, (ten and) two leave, i.e., two left over; cognate with Old Frisian twelef, twelf, Old High German zwelif, Old Norse tōlf, Gothic twalif; compare Lithuanian dvýlika; see two, leave1, eleven. Collins Concise English Dictionary
twelve. ( twɛlv) n. 1. (Mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and two. See also number 1. 2. (Mathematics) a numeral, 12, XII, etc, representing this number. 3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 12 units.
Origin of Twelve. From Middle English, from Old English twelf, from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *twa- (“two" ) and *-lif (“left over" ), from Proto-Indo-European *leikw- (“leave, remain" ). Compare West Frisian tolve, Dutch twaalf, German zwölf, Danish tolf, Norwegian tolv. From Wiktionary.
Definitions of twelve. noun. the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one. synonyms: 12, XII, dozen. see more. adjective. denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units. synonyms: 12, dozen, xii.
