twelve
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and oneSynonyms: 12XIIdozenType of large integerKinds boxcars
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Translations
Numeral cardinal number 12
- Spanish
- doce
- French
- douze
- German
- zwölf
- Italian
- dodici
- Portuguese
- doze
- Turkish
- on iki
- Russian
- двена́дцать dvenádcatʹ
- Arabic
- اِثْنَا عَشَرَ iṯnā ʕašara
- Chinese
- 十二 shí'èr
- Japanese
- 十二 jūni
36 more languages
- Dutch
- twaalf
- Polish
- dwanaście
- Swedish
- tolv
- Greek
- δώδεκα dódeka
- Korean
- 열둘 yeoldul
- Indonesian
- dua belas
- Vietnamese
- mười hai
- Hungarian
- tizenkettő
- Portuguese (PT)
- doze
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 十二 shí'èr
- Albanian
- dymbëdhjetë
- Breton
- daouzek
- Catalan
- dotze
- Corsican
- dodeci
- Czech
- dvanáct
- Danish
- tolv
- Esperanto
- dek du
- Estonian
- kaksteist
- Finnish
- kaksitoista
- Georgian
- თორმეტი tormeṭi
- Hebrew
- שנים עשר sh'ném 'asár
- Icelandic
- tólf
- Kurdish
- dazde
- Latvian
- divpadsmit
- Lithuanian
- dvylika
- Malagasy
- roa ambinifolo
- Norwegian
- tolv
- Romanian
- doisprezece
- Scottish Gaelic
- dà-dheug
- Serbo-Croatian
- dvanaest
- Slovak
- dvanásť
- Slovenian
- dvanajst
- Swahili
- kumi na mbili
- Walloon
- doze
- Welsh
- deuddeg
- Yiddish
- צוועלף tsvelf
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. twelve, twelf, AS. twelf; akin to OFries. twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. tōlf, Sw. tolf, Dan. tolv, Goth. twalif, from the root of E. two + the same element as in the second part of E. eleven. See Two, and Eleven.
One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.
Twelve-men's morris. See the Note under Morris. — Twelve Tables. Roman antiquity See under Table.
1. The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.
2. A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.
The Twelve Scripture, the twelve apostles. Matt. xxvi. 20.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54