twenty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 29 or XXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Muriel Spark’s protagonist—“she might be as young as twenty-nine or as old as thirty-six”—comes to us, at first, as a burlesque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
It said that twenty-nine members of staff based at the Peterlee site had been kept on to help with trading.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023
It stands just under four and a half inches tall and may be as much as twenty-nine thousand years old.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Five hundred twenty-nine U.S. communities applied for the Commerce Department’s initial $500,000 planning awards, and observers expect similarly stiff competition for the NSF program.
From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2022
The Swazi bantustan, Lebowa, and Venda were composed of three pieces each; Gazankule, four; the Ciskei, seventeen; Bophuthatswana, nineteen; and KwaZulu, twenty-nine.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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