"twenty-twenty" meaning in All languages combined

See twenty-twenty on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Etymology: From a method of testing vision by reading charts at a distance of 20 feet. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} twenty-twenty (not comparable)
  1. Having normal visual acuity. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Twenty, Vision Synonyms: 20/20 Derived forms: twenty-twenty hindsight Coordinate_terms: 6/6, six-six

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From a method of testing vision by reading charts at a distance of 20 feet.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "twenty-twenty (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English reduplicated coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Reduplicated coordinated pairs",
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Reduplications",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Twenty",
          "orig": "en:Twenty",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Vision",
          "orig": "en:Vision",
          "parents": [
            "Senses",
            "Perception",
            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "6/6"
        },
        {
          "word": "six-six"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "twenty-twenty hindsight"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, “Picture This”, in Debbie Harry (lyrics), Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:",
          "text": "All I want is 20/20 vision / A total portrait with no omissions",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having normal visual acuity."
      ],
      "id": "en-twenty-twenty-en-adj-Sm5grijW",
      "links": [
        [
          "normal",
          "normal"
        ],
        [
          "visual",
          "visual"
        ],
        [
          "acuity",
          "acuity"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "20/20"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "twenty-twenty"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "6/6"
    },
    {
      "word": "six-six"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "twenty-twenty hindsight"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From a method of testing vision by reading charts at a distance of 20 feet.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "twenty-twenty (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English reduplicated coordinated pairs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Twenty",
        "en:Vision"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, “Picture This”, in Debbie Harry (lyrics), Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:",
          "text": "All I want is 20/20 vision / A total portrait with no omissions",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having normal visual acuity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "normal",
          "normal"
        ],
        [
          "visual",
          "visual"
        ],
        [
          "acuity",
          "acuity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "20/20"
    }
  ],
  "word": "twenty-twenty"
}

Download raw JSONL data for twenty-twenty meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.