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.

Example Sentences

V.XXVII, the Roman numerals for May twenty-seventh, my birthday.

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Florida is admitted as the twenty-seventh state, a slave state.

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In the final game, Spassky played his twenty-seventh move—it was hopeless at that point—and then resigned.

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On my twenty-seventh birthday, the birthday I had chosen, I submitted my PhD dissertation.

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“Maybe if you were less focused on calling him Caveman Callum and imagining him grunting, you’d hear the more important stuff. I’m talking about Midsummer Night being on the twenty-seventh.”

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