twenty-sixth
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- adjective
- /ˌtwɛntiˈsɪksθ/
- I have an important meeting on Friday, the twenty-sixth of this month.
- twenty-sixth birthday
- twenty-sixth president
- October twenty-sixth
Examples
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The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age to eighteen.
Academic text (1992) -
Lavinia's twenty-sixth birthday party, back in November.
Fiction book (1999) -
Monday, October twenty-sixth - the first day of the best time of my life!
Fiction book (1999) -
"It's the twenty-sixth of December," the midwife said.
Academic text (2007) -
Pete's name was not on the list for Friday, September twenty-sixth.
Fiction book (1995) -
Let's see, thirty days hath September... that makes last Friday the twenty-sixth.
Fiction book (1995) -
Generally, Poland placed twenty-sixth, worse than Czechoslovakia (23), but better than Hungary (30).
Academic text (1995) -
Healthy young men who graduated from high school but didn't volunteer or go immediately to college could expect to be called up sooner or later, we were told, sometime before their twenty-sixth birthday.
Academic text (2003) -
I dined with Forster and Wills at the Garrick Club on the twenty-sixth of April.
Fiction book (1990) -
He spoke in Augusta on March 21, then in Macon and Brunswick before arriving in Atlanta on the twenty-sixth.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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Number twenty-six in a list
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Surface Forms
Morphology
twenty-sixth = twenty-six (transparent) = twenty + six + th
Formed by adding the regular ordinal suffix '-th' to the compound cardinal 'twenty-six', so the meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
Twenty-sixth is simply the number twenty plus the ordinal sixth, so it can be read as 'six after twenty'. So, twenty-sixth means 'number 26 in order', for example the 26th day or place.