twenty-seven

American  

[twen-tee-sev-uhn, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈsɛv ən, ˈtwʌn- /

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.

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adjective

1. amounting to 27 in number.

Example Sentences

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twenty-seven

Memphis, Light, Gas and Water said it had repaired twenty-seven broken water mains since Saturday.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

The SPI’s Los Angeles chapter said last month it was “proud to accept the Community Hero Award for our twenty-seven years of service to the LGBTQIA2S community.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

This granite statue of a kneeling Pharaoh Hatshepsut, carved in the fifteenth century BCE and originally painted, measures just over twenty-seven inches high.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

I suppose if I had been watching it more closely, I could have pulled it out at, what, the twenty-seven second mark?

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2022

Fear is A.U. one, two, and four, or, more fully, one, two, four, five, and twenty, with or without action units twenty-five, twenty-six, or twenty-seven.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell