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twenty-seventh

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

adjective

  1. next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
  2. being one of 27 equal parts.


noun

  1. a twenty-seventh part, especially of one (1/27).
  2. the twenty-seventh member of a series.

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“The Twenty-Seventh Man,” was the first break-through story for me.

He reached St. Cloud quietly on the evening of July twenty-seventh.

Here we have the twenty-seventh year, so that the prophecies of Ezekiel cover a period of about twenty-two years.

It had a wonderful commerce, a description of which in its variety, we find in the twenty-seventh chapter.

September twenty-seventh, a meeting was held for the purpose of organizing a county to be called Laramie.

It was prophesied that his twenty-seventh and thirty-seventh years would prove unlucky to him.

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