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

“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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Frank Powers flew to an American air base at Peshawar, Pakistan, the jumping-off point for his twenty-eighth overflight.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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 De Quincey, Thomas