twelve

Definition of twelve in English English dictionary: The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII
There are twelve months in a year.; A group of twelve items
Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.; {a} two and ten, six repeated twice; The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Roman numerals as XII and in Arabic numerals as 12. Ordinal: twelfth; The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen; the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units; the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one; One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen; Twelve is the number; {s} being 12 in number, amounting to twelve; denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units; {i} number 12; group of twelve persons or things; the number 12; Describing a set or group with twelve components. There are twelve months in a year; A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii; {n} dozen
Twelve Days of Christmas: Christmastide, Christmas time, Christmas season: the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany. The Christmas season traditionally ended with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6
Twelve Days of Christmas: title of a Christmas carol in which one person gives another person successively greater and more numerous presents each day of the Christmas season
twelve hundred: The number 1200 one thousand two hundred
twelve hundred: The year 1200
twelve o'clock: The first hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock and also noon in the 12-hour clock; 12: 00
twelve steppers: plural form of twelve stepper (alternative spelling of twelve-steppers)
twelve-bar blues: A blues form built on a twelve-measure chord pattern, most typically I,I,I,I,IV,IV,I,I,V7,IV,I,V7, where I, IV and V7 represent the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords respectively
twelve-ounce curls: Drinking beer
He sat on the couch all weekend eating chips and doing twelve-ounce curls.
twelve-step program: An entity or plan which assists people in recovering from addiction through which an organized series of actions, usually including with group discussion among people having the same problem
And you need a twelve-step program. You've got a problem, and it's called rodeo.
twelve-step programs: plural form of twelve-step program
twelve-stepper: A person who is or has been a participant in a twelve-step program to recover from addiction
The turkey smells so marvelously... rustic, commented Taggerty, swigging her sherry like a lapsed twelve-stepper.
twelve-tone technique: A system of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg, as a method of composing with twelve notes which are related solely to each other
twelve-year-old: A person or thing having an age of twelve years
twelve-year-old: Describing a person or thing having an age of twelve years
Twelve Step: a Twelve Step program a method of helping people stop drinking alcohol, using drugs etc., developed by Alcoholics Anonymous
Twelve Tribes of Israel: the twelve tribes of Israel, twelve tribes of Israelites descended from Jacob's twelve sons
twelve Apostles: {i} twelves disciples of Jesus
twelve o'clock: noon, midnight, 12: 00
twelve-tone music: a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
twelfth: One of twelve equal parts of a whole
Five twelfths of the population voted in support of the proposal.
twelfth: An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth
twelfth: The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence
She finished twelfth in the race.
twelfth: {a} the second in order after the tenth
Law of the Twelve Tables: Earliest codification of ancient Roman law, traditionally dated to 451-450 BC. They were purportedly written at the demand of the plebeians, who felt that their legal rights were hampered by the fact that court judgments were rendered according to unwritten custom preserved only within a small group of learned patricians. The Twelve Tables were not a reform or a liberalizing of old custom; they recognized the prerogatives of the patrician class and of the patriarchal family, the validity of enslavement for unpaid debt, and the interference of religious custom in civil cases. Because only random quotations from the Twelve Tables are extant, knowledge about their contents is largely derived from references in later juridical writings. Venerated by the Romans as a prime legal source, the Twelve Tables were superseded by later changes in Roman law but were never formally abolished
the twelve constellations: twelve groups of stars, the Wheel of Fortune
the twelve minor prophets: twelve lesser prophets of the Bible
twelfth: Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; the ordinal of twelve
twelfth: An interval comprising an octave and a fifth
twelfth: The person or thing in the twelfth position
twelfth: The next in order after the eleventh
twelfth: position 12 in a countable series of things coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position
twelfth: A twelfth is one of twelve equal parts of something. She is entitled to a twelfth of the cash. one of twelve equal parts of something
twelfth: coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position
twelfth: (The), the 12th of August The first day of grouse-shooting
twelfth: {s} being number twelve in a sequence
twelfth: {i} number 12 in a series; one part of twelve equal parts, 1/12
twelfth: The twelfth note of a musical scale The octave plus four notes
twelfth: The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole
twelfth: position 12 in a countable series of things
twelfth: The twelfth item in a series is the one that you count as number twelve. the twelfth anniversary of the April revolution. a twelfth-century church
twelfth: within or heading a twelve-card holding [Usage: ace-queen-twelfth = AQJ1098765432]
twelfth: Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided
twelfth: The ordinal form of the number twelve
twelfth: {s} dozenth
twelves: plural of twelve

twelve

Turkish pronunciation

twelv

Pronunciation

/ˈtwelv/ /ˈtwɛlv/

Etymology

[ 'twelv ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Old English twelf from Proto-Germanic *twalif-, an old compound of *twa- (“two”) and *-lif (“left over”) *leikw- (“leave, remain”).