twenty-eighth

American  

[twen-tee-aytth, -ayth, 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

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Example Sentences

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twenty-eighth twenty-eighths

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

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

“On July twenty-eighth, the United States of America will launch Ranger Seven from Cape Kennedy, Florida,” he said.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

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