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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It was the day before his twenty-ninth birthday.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
Last year, Montenegro became the twenty-ninth member of NATO.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2018
“She was held prisoner, too. This is my twenty-ninth tour with her. I guess I felt protective”.
From Time ● Oct. 6, 2016
These towers, which rose from the twenty-ninth to the forty-third story, constituted from the beginning the hotel’s unique appeal to which the American journalist Ward Morehouse devoted an entire book.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2014
“I know that. I was looking at that passport today. The thing is, their birthday isn’t the twenty-ninth of July. It’s the third of March.”
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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