twenty-eighth

American  

[twen-tee-eytth, -eyth, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ, ˈtwʌn- /

adjective

1. next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.

2. being one of 28 equal parts.

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noun

twenty-eighths plural

1. a twenty-eighth part, especially of one (1/28).

2. the twenty-eighth member of a series.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• twenty-eighths
  plural

Example Sentences

Amaya handed me a piece of paper listing “solutions” he’d come up with, including a twenty-eighth amendment, calling for a doubling of the size of Congress with citizens drafted by lottery from every congressional district.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019

“The poor heart doesn’t seem to grow old at all,” she wrote to Methfessel in March of 1971, a month after her sixtieth birthday and two weeks past Methfessel’s twenty-eighth.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2016

From later down in the piece: One evening last March, this small-town icon was in a Milledgeville, Georgia, bar to celebrate his twenty-eighth birthday.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2011

For Bruce, this event marked his highest placing of the year, and while not entirely out of the woods, his requalification status is looking much better now that he's sitting in the twenty-eighth spot.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had indeed privately made up his mind to leave on his fiftieth birthday: Bilbo’s one hundred and twenty-eighth.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien