TWENTY-THREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-three mean? 

• TWENTY-THREE (noun)
  The noun TWENTY-THREE has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-two and one

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-THREE used as a noun is very rare.

• TWENTY-THREE (adjective)
  The adjective TWENTY-THREE has 1 sense:

1. being three more than twenty

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-THREE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-THREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-two and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

23; twenty-three; XXIII

Hypernyms ("twenty-three" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• TWENTY-THREE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being three more than twenty

Synonyms:

23; twenty-three; xxiii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

There were twenty-three other deductions which would be of more interest to experts than to you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are in it twenty-three marks, one noble, three shillings and fourpence, which is a great treasure for one man to carry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her brother told her that it was twenty-three miles.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Her beam, or width, is twenty-three feet, and her length a little over ninety feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I am informed, said Sir John Lade, that Crab Wilson’s age is twenty-three, and that, although he has never fought a regular P.R. battle, he has none the less fought within ropes for a stake on many occasions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every twenty-three hours.

(Every Twenty-Three Hours, NCI Thesaurus)

The amount of the first obligation,” here Mr. Micawber carefully referred to papers, “was, I believe, twenty-three, four, nine and a half, of the second, according to my entry of that transaction, eighteen, six, two. These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half. My friend Copperfield will perhaps do me the favour to check that total?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It has a girth of twenty-three feet.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)