twenty-six

American  

[twen-tee-siks, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈsɪks, ˈtwʌn- /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 6.

2. a symbol for this number, as 26 or XXVI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 26 in number.

Example Sentences

There were six hundred and fifty seats up for grabs, and an outright majority would therefore be three hundred and twenty six: a fantasy figure, allegedly, far beyond the grasp of any single bloc.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2015

Perhaps the longest single rock album ever, Wizard's 'International Feel' side runs over twenty six minutes, while the sweetly searingly Rundgren-esque verso sings for almost half an hour.

From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2013

In the great human creations, in the twelve notes of the musical scale, in the twenty six letters of the alphabet, these fantastic structural inventions have unlocked the enormous creativity of literature and music.

From Forbes • Sep. 5, 2011

"Three hundred and twenty six thousand servicemen and women died in World War II so that we wouldn't have Nazi salutes on the streets of Britain."

From BBC • May 14, 2010

The governor of the islands had an order to aid that city, by a decree of December twenty, six hundred and twenty-three.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander