twenty-nine

American  

[twen-tee-nahyn, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈnaɪn, ˈtwʌn- /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 9.

2. a symbol for this number, as 29 or XXIX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 29 in number.

Example Sentences

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twenty-nine

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 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

"One hundred and twenty-nine goals - that is insane," Klopp said after the United thumping.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 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

Now, at age twenty-nine, I sit down to write, to reconstruct the incident from the echoes and shouts of a tired memory.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover