twenty-nine

American  

[twen-tee-nahyn, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈnaɪn, ˈtwʌn- /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 9.

2. a symbol for this number, as 29 or XXIX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 29 in number.

Example Sentences

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twenty-nine

Muriel Spark’s protagonist—“she might be as young as twenty-nine or as old as thirty-six”—comes to us, at first, as a burlesque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

"One hundred and twenty-nine goals - that is insane," Klopp said after the United thumping.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2023

Five hundred twenty-nine U.S. communities applied for the Commerce Department’s initial $500,000 planning awards, and observers expect similarly stiff competition for the NSF program.

From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2022

Payne concluded, "While I cannot allow false statements about events twenty-nine years ago to go uncorrected, I will continue to wish only the best for Rose."

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2020

And here I was now, twenty-nine years old, sitting in the very same apartment where I'd watched all that TV and consumed all those meals dished up by the patient and selfless Marian Robinson.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama