twenty-sevenths
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pluralof twenty-seventh.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
twenty-seventhadjectivenext after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
Example Sentences
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The most important characteristics of the gift are: introduction of diagonal line and triangular form; division into thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths; illustration of the inclined plane and cube-root.
From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
In the Fifth Gift the child sees three and its multiples; in fractions, halves, quarters, eighths, thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths.
From Children's Rights A book of nursery logic by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Ye see, every day, the interest is a penny and twenty-six twenty-sevenths of a farthin.
From The Duke of Stockbridge by Edward Bellamy