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

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twenty-eighth twenty-eighths

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

His law firm, on the twenty-eighth floor of a Seattle office building, has filed hundreds of lawsuits against many of the largest food producers in the world.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 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

The U. S. was the twenty-eighth and last nation finally to sign the new agreement.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Twenty-eight,” said the hare at the top of her twenty-eighth hop.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Only that, as Sunday was exempted, the rigorous expression of the quota was one fourth of six-sevenths, which makes sixty twenty-eighths and not six twenty-fourths of the total time.

From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey