twenty-seven
- numeral
- /ˈtwɛntiˈsɛvən/
- 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
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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.
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"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
A Roman way of writing the number 27
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Morphology
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.