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twenty-seven

[ twen-tee-sev-uhn, twuhn- ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 7.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 27 or XXVII.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 27 in number.
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Example Sentences

Twenty-seven-year-old George Leslie arrived in New York City in 1869, a successful architect.

Twenty-seven percent of African-Americans said they would not report a crime to the police, compared to 54 percent of Hispanics.

Twenty-seven-year-old software engineer Pavlo Lykhoviy, who is in the pro-Maidan camp, mentions a pipeline explosion last weekend.

We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.

Twenty-seven of the 43 defendants, including all but one of the Americans, were tried in absentia.

But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.

Given in Madrid, November twenty-seven, one thousand six hundred and twenty-three.

The reported duty of Watt's Herland engine was twenty-seven millions; and if the trial was with his ordinary bushel of 112 lbs.

Watt had claimed such an engine in his patent twenty-seven years before, but had failed to carry it into practice.

The grandfather of Lady Selina Shirley had twenty-seven children, her father being the second son.

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