twenty-seven

American  

[twen-tee-sev-uhn, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈsɛv ən, ˈtwʌn- /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 7.

2. a symbol for this number, as 27 or XXVII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 27 in number.

Example Sentences

I worked all my life to become young — no, you can’t persuade me to get old I will die twenty seven —

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2016

Adding these twenty seven to the total, there are now just under 1,000 titles that have been recognized.

From Forbes • Jan. 18, 2015

This year, twenty seven new titles are being accepted into the institution’s growing list of famous names.

From Forbes • Jan. 18, 2015

Would you believe it, she had been a servant in that selfsame house and that selfsame family for twenty seven years come Christmas, and never a cross word and never a lick!

From Sketches New and Old, Part 3. by Twain, Mark

Some say there were but thirty taken, and from Curiae or Fraternities were named; but Valerius Antias says five hundred and twenty seven, Juba, six hundred and eighty-three.

From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by White, John S. (John Stuart)