twenty-seventh
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- adjective
- /ˌtwɛntiˈsɛvənθ/
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vigésimo séptimo
- In his twenty-seventh year of coaching, he led the team to victory.
- the twenty-seventh birthday
Examples
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Dr. Wong checks his records. Dr. Wong, October twenty-seventh. #Dulaney#
Fiction book (1993) -
(Let us note a well-known fact: November 7, 1944, was the twenty-seventh anniversary of the October Revolution.)
Fiction book (1996) -
We were in his living room on the twenty-seventh floor.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Twenty-seventh Amendment assures that there will be an election before a pay raise takes effect, thus giving the people a chance to prevent their representatives from directly taking more resources from the state for themselves.
Academic text (1997) -
He was reading a paper at the Philosophy Association Convention at the Palmer House at ten o'clock, Friday, December twenty-seventh.
Fiction book (1994) -
The most elemental is the Twenty-seventh Amendment, which was actually proposed as the second amendment in 1789 and ratified two hundred years later.
Academic text (1997) -
Ten days after Egan's installation, Joni Scott and I arrived at the twenty-seventh annual National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) convention in Arlington, Virginia.
Academic text (2000) -
In 2012, the university was ranked twenty-first and twenty-seventh, respectively, in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Academic text (2016) -
She celebrated her twenty-seventh birthday with a big party last weekend.
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This year marks the twenty-seventh anniversary of their wedding.
Synonyms
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The position after the twenty-sixth in a list
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Surface Forms
Morphology
twenty-seventh = twenty-seven (transparent) = twenty + seven + th
The ordinal is formed by adding the standard ordinal suffix '-th' to the cardinal 'twenty-seven', a pattern readily understood by learners.
Etymology
The word twenty-seventh is made from twenty ('20') and seventh (the form of 'seven' used to show order), with -th showing order. So it means 'the one after twenty-six' or 'number 27 in order'.