Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Eight more than twenty.
- noun The Australian yellow-collared parrakeet, Platycercus semitorquatus: so named from its note, which is sometimes repeated several times in succession.
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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingtwenty-seven and precedingtwenty-nine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-seven and one
- adjective being eight more than twenty
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Examples
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In the New Testament the term holy spirit is referred to twenty-eight times with the definite article and forty-four times without.
The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006
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In the New Testament the term holy spirit is referred to twenty-eight times with the definite article and forty-four times without.
The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006
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Orv was only twenty-eight, but he was a former marine and World War II veteran with a commanding sense of organization.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Orv was only twenty-eight, but he was a former marine and World War II veteran with a commanding sense of organization.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The demand for a modern take on traditional Christianity became obvious to Rick Warren as he went knocking on doors in Orange County twenty-eight years ago, asking his neighbors what they wanted in a church.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Orv was only twenty-eight, but he was a former marine and World War II veteran with a commanding sense of organization.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The scholar Seymour Slive explained that his early work is unknown: "What the artist... did before he was about twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old remains an unsolved riddle."
David Galenson: Visiting the Oldest Dutch Master: The Frans Hals Museum David Galenson 2011
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The scholar Seymour Slive explained that his early work is unknown: "What the artist... did before he was about twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old remains an unsolved riddle."
David Galenson: Visiting the Oldest Dutch Master: The Frans Hals Museum David Galenson 2011
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Another twenty-eight students were wounded by bullets or injured leaping from upper-story windows.
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In Pennsylvania twenty-eight percent of children are enrolled and in New Jersey, twenty - four percent of children are enrolled.
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