twenty-ninth
Americanadjective
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next after the twenty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 29.
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being one of 29 equal parts.
noun
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a twenty-ninth part, especially of one (1/29).
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the twenty-ninth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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On the twenty-ninth of August that year, Doane ascended a peak north of Yellowstone Lake, and looking south from on top, he noticed an oval-shaped void in the Rocky Mountains thirty by forty-five miles across.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2019
Last year, Montenegro became the twenty-ninth member of NATO.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2018
“Every hour, these days is so filled with the present that there is very little time to look backward,” he wrote home on his twenty-ninth birthday, October 11th.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2018
“She was held prisoner, too. This is my twenty-ninth tour with her. I guess I felt protective”.
From Time ● Oct. 6, 2016
And then, on the twenty-ninth move, with the position equal, Fischer engaged in one of the most dangerous gambles of his career.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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