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.

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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

It said that twenty-nine members of staff based at the Peterlee site had been kept on to help with trading.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023

Finally twenty-nine Funny, just like you were at the time Thought it was a teenage dream, just a fantasy But was it yours or was it mine?

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 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

Three months later they received in a large envelope twenty-nine letters and more than fifty pictures that he had accumulated during the leisure of the high seas.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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