twenty-six

[twen-tee-siks, twuhn-]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 6.

2. a symbol for this number, as 26 or XXVI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 26 in number.

Example Sentences

“The Bedford Park Fire Department, along with multiple Fire Department agencies from surrounding jurisdictions, transported twenty-six patients to area hospitals for treatment,” police said in a news release.

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“I need twenty-six more outfits for her!” he said.

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“Yes, identities behind those payments were obscured by pseudonymous addresses, long strings of between twenty-six and thirty-five characters,” Greenberg writes.

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And Last: God knows regular quipping’s not very challenging, but making you use eXactly twenty-six words, each one having a different first letter, is just plain zany.

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It has since become labeled as the “Magna Carta of the internet” and “the twenty-six words that created the internet.”

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