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.
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It was the day before his twenty-ninth birthday.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
“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
In the Waldorf Astoria it was no longer the upper but the lower floors that had no access to the best elevator service; the express elevators for the Towers went directly to the twenty-ninth floor.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2014
His face had aged so dramatically that, on the twenty-ninth birthday he celebrated that November, he could easily have passed for sixty.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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