twenty years
A generation's span
Twenty years is a span of two decades, often invoked to emphasize duration or significant life passages: He served twenty years in prison, They've been married for twenty years.
The phrase carries weight because it represents a substantial portion of a human lifetime—long enough for complete transformation.
Twenty years from now projects into a future distant enough to imagine wholesale change.
- generationAge-defined peer group
- prison sentenceMandated period of incarceration
- life sentenceImprisonment without release
- anniversaryRecurring memorial date
- golden anniversaryFifty-year marriage commemoration
milestone · score · lifespan · long haul · era · high school reunion · class reunion · reunion · marriage · career · span · aging · coming of age · memories · old times · retrospect · time flies · journey
- career milestonespromotion, hire, first job, retirement, raise
- prison sentenceslife sentence, prison term, jail time, sentence length, life without parole
- sentencinglife sentence, life sentences, prison sentence, death row, consecutive sentences
twenty yearsovernight success
Rapid rise to fame
flash in the pan · passing fancy · temporary · ephemeral · momentary
twenty, years, year, yearly, yearling, yearlong, twin, twins, twinned