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twenty-seven

twenty-seven

34 1.0
The number after twenty-six and before twenty-eight
  • numeral
  • /ˈtwɛntiˈsɛvən/
translation icon : veintisiete
  • At twenty-seven, he began to realize his true potential and chase his dreams.
  • twenty-seven years old
  • twenty-seven years
  • twenty-seven percent

Examples

  • By 2010, of twenty-seven photographs with visible roads, only six showed dirt surfaces.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The minstrel Alaric first graced these pages some twenty-seven years ago, in the August 1971 issue, to be precise.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • John was then assigned a black female probation officer who was about twenty-seven years of age.

    Academic text (1992)
  • We reveal that this image is coming from a twenty-seven inch television.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Twenty-seven people in this bureau alone including technical personnel.

  • "The legal issue was that the victim is chronologically twenty-seven years old."

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Big-seed maize production has recently been abandoned by more than twenty-seven households in the lower valley.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The first PDS Co-op drew twenty-seven participants from four PDS sites in one district.

    Academic text (1998)
  • "I've been here for twenty-seven years," Miriam Jaffrey told us as she invited us into her apartment.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • She has lived in the city for twenty-seven years and knows all its secrets.

Synonyms

XXVII
vstwenty-seven
1 6.8

A Roman way of writing the number 27

uses a written word form rather than numeral characters

How Many

one hundred
194 1.0
fifty
876 1.0
twenty-seven
34 1.0
twenty
1.0
ten
1.0
one
1.0

Surface Forms

twenty-seven cardinal word
27 cardinal digit

Morphology

twenty-seven = twenty + seven (transparent) = twenty + seven

Standard hyphenated numeral formed by combining 'twenty' and 'seven', whose meanings directly compose to give 27.

Etymology

Twenty-seven is made by joining twenty (which means 'two tens') and seven ('7'), so it simply means two groups of ten plus seven more.