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twenty-eighth

[ twen-tee-eytth, -eyth, twuhn- ]

adjective

  1. next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.
  2. being one of 28 equal parts.


noun

  1. a twenty-eighth part, especially of one (1/28).
  2. the twenty-eighth member of a series.

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Example Sentences

He lost the bet on the twenty-eighth question, when a duplicate birthday turned up.

On October twenty-eighth an armed Spanish force seized the person and papers of Ferdinand.

By abandoning their route along the immediate bank of the Arkansas on the twenty-eighth, the party missed the Cimarron.

On the twenty-eighth of February, Guise, with two hundred armed retainers, left Joinville.

They felt that a decision must be taken, and finally on the twenty-eighth the imperial officials held a council.

Early in the morning of March twenty-eighth the army was set in motion toward Paris.

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