twenty-sixth

American  

[twen-tee-siksth, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈsɪksθ, ˈtwʌn- /

adjective

1. next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.

2. being one of 26 equal parts.

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noun

1. a twenty-sixth part, especially of one (1/26).

2. the twenty-sixth member of a series.

Example Sentences

If she gave me a penny on January first and kept doubling it, on January twenty-sixth she would give me $335,544.

From Literature

His fingernails caked in soil, Fadi was about to call it quits when the earth loosened around a small tin box in their twenty-sixth pit.

From Literature

But then on the twenty-sixth of April last, Aunt Sponge—the late Aunt Sponge, I mean—happened to glance up at the ceiling, and she spotted her.

From Literature

In her office on the twenty-sixth floor, Rose stops work on the report she was writing, her fingers in mid-air over her keyboard, overcome by a sense of grief she can’t explain.

From Nature

Steyer would become the twenty-sixth Democrat competing for the party’s nomination to take on Trump.

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