23 (Noun)
Meaning
The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-two and one.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- She woke up to her twenty-third birthday candles burning on the kitchen table.
- Twenty-three skidoo is an idiomatic expression for making a quick exit.
- In bingo, twenty-three is the next number called after twenty-two.
- At exactly twenty-three seconds into the minute, the traffic light changed.
- In math, the equation reads: 22 + 1 = twenty-three.