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

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

2. the twenty-eighth member of a series.

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

Then his final show began—his six thousand and twenty-eighth, after thirty-three years—and he one-upped it.

From The New Yorker • May 21, 2015

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

Two days later, on the twenty-eighth, the country responded magnificently as several hundred thousand Africans observed the chiefs call.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela