What does Twelve mean?
Definitions for Twelve
twɛlvTwelve
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Princeton's WordNet
twelve, 12, XII, dozen(adj)
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
twelve, 12, xii, dozen(adj)
denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
Wiktionary
twelve(Noun)
A group of twelve items.
Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.
Etymology: From twelf, from twalif-, an old compound of twa- and -lif, from leikw-.
twelve(Noun)
A twelve-bore gun.
Etymology: From twelf, from twalif-, an old compound of twa- and -lif, from leikw-.
Webster Dictionary
Twelve(adj)
one more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen
Twelve(noun)
the number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen
Twelve(noun)
a symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii
Freebase
Twelve
Twelve is an album by Patti Smith, released April 17, 2007 on Columbia Records. As the title suggests, the album contains twelve tracks, all of which are cover versions. It debuted on Billboard 200 at number 60, with 11,000 copies sold in its first week. A promotional EP entitled Two More was also released, featuring two tracks that are not on the album: "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed and "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect" by The Decemberists.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Twelve
twelv, adj. ten and two.—n. the number next after eleven: the figures representing twelve: (pl.) same as duodecimo.—ns. Twelve′-mo, same as duodecimo, written 12mo; Twelve′-month, twelve months: a year.—adjs. Twelve′-penn′y, worth a shilling: trifling, insignificant; Twelve′score, twelve times twenty, or two hundred and forty.—n. twelvescore yards, a common range in archery, used also in measurements.—Twelve-day writ, a writ in actions on bills, &c., warning defendant to appear within twelve days, otherwise judgment would go against him; Twelve Tables, the name given to the earliest code of Roman law, civil, criminal, and religious, made by the decemvirs in 451-449 B.C.—Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, a work of the 2d century after Christ, in which, on the model of Jacob's blessing of the tribes in Genesis xlix., discourses and prophecies of Christ are put into the mouths of the fathers of Israel; The Twelve, the twelve apostles. [A.S. twelf (Ger. zwölf, and Goth. twa-lif), that is 'two and ten' (for twá-, cf. Two; and for -lif, cf. Eleven).]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Twelve' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2658
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Twelve' in Written Corpus Frequency: #339
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Twelve in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Twelve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Twelve in a Sentence
Twelve months from now we will have made about 1 million vehicles.
Sadako! Listen! Can you hear your friends’ strong voices for peace? As the mother of a child who passed away when she was only twelve and a half years old, I’d like to appeal to mothers not only in Japan but all over the world that I don’t want such a horrible thing to happen again. So many children are looking for peace.
On one’s path through life, it shall be nearly impossible to find and acquire complete virtue. Aristotle listed his twelve virtues and other philosophers have noted even more personality traits to describe the virtuous. But one, morality jumps off the page which within itself is defined distinctively different between various religious, social value systems and nationalities. Morality is defined by our conscience, not the dictionary.
Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan:
Three of my Buncombe County Commissioners … basically told their Sheriff and their Sheriff’s Office that the hard work we have done over the past twelve years has counted for nothing.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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- twaalfAfrikaans
- ዐሥራ ሁለትAmharic
- اِثْنَا عَشَرَ, اثني عشرArabic
- tunka payaniAymara
- on ikiAzerbaijani
- ун икеBashkir
- двана́ццацьBelarusian
- двана́десетBulgarian
- বারোBengali
- བཅུ་གཉིསTibetan Standard
- daouzekBreton
- dotzeCatalan, Valencian
- шийттаChechen
- dvanáctCzech
- дъва на дєсѧтєOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- un deg dau, undeg dwy, deuddegWelsh
- tolvDanish
- zwölf, zwGerman
- δώδεκαGreek
- dek duEsperanto
- doceSpanish
- kaksteistEstonian
- hamabiBasque
- دوازدهPersian
- kaksitoistaFinnish
- tólvFaroese
- douzeFrench
- tolve, tolfWestern Frisian
- dó dhéagIrish
- dà dheug, dhà dheugScottish Gaelic
- doceGalician
- બારGujarati
- daa yeigManx
- שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵה, תרעסר, שנים שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂר, תרתעסראHebrew
- बारहHindi
- douzHaitian Creole
- tizenkettőHungarian
- տասներկուArmenian
- dua belasIndonesian
- tólfIcelandic
- dodiciItalian
- שתיים עשרהHebrew
- 十二Japanese
- თორმეტიGeorgian
- он екіKazakh
- aqqaniq-marlukKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- ដប់ពីរKhmer
- ೧೨, ಹನ್ನೆರಡುKannada
- 십이, 十二, 열둘Korean
- dazdeKurdish
- он экиKyrgyz
- duodecimLatin
- ສິບສອງLao
- dvylikaLithuanian
- divpadsmitLatvian
- tekau mā rua, ngahuru mā ruaMāori
- двана́есетMacedonian
- പന്ത്രണ്ട്Malayalam
- арван хоёр, ᠑᠒Mongolian
- sepuluh dua, dua belas, satu puluh duaMalay
- tnaxMaltese
- ဆယ့်နှစ်Burmese
- ata ma aroNauru
- twaalfDutch
- tolvNorwegian
- naakitsʼáadahNavajo, Navaho
- khumi n'ziwiriChichewa, Chewa, Nyanja
- dotzeOccitan
- ashi-niizhOjibwe, Ojibwa
- ୧୨, ବାରOriya
- ਬਾਰਾਂPanjabi, Punjabi
- dwanaście, dwanaścioroPolish
- dozePortuguese
- chunka iskayniyuqQuechua
- dudeschRomansh
- двена́дцатьRussian
- द्वादशSanskrit
- два́нае̄ст, dvánaēstSerbo-Croatian
- දොළහSinhala, Sinhalese
- dvanásťSlovak
- dvanájstSlovene
- dymbëdhjetëAlbanian
- tolvSwedish
- பன்னிரண்டுTamil
- పండ్రెండుTelugu
- дувоздаҳTajik
- สิบสองThai
- on ikiTurkmen
- labindalawaTagalog
- on ikiTurkish
- уникеTatar
- ئون ئىككىUyghur, Uighur
- двана́дцятьUkrainian
- بارہUrdu
- oʻn ikkiUzbek
- degtelVolapük
- צוועלףYiddish
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