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twenty-eight

twenty-eight

31 1.0
A number that is twenty plus eight
  • numeral
  • /ˈtwɛnti eɪt/
translation icon : veintiocho
  • Consequently, bands were fully encompassing brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments and by 1899 numbered twenty-eight musicians.
  • Twenty-eight percent
  • twenty-eight years
  • twenty-eight years old

Examples

  • Additionally, only members of the chemistry department were cited from all twenty-eight of the journals in which they also publish.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Coming from a man only twenty-eight years of age, it was a remarkable performance.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Although he was only twenty-eight when he died, his internal organs were probably much older.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The project grew considerably over the remaining twenty-eight years of her life and continued long afterward.

    Academic text (1991)

  • I dreaded losing him and being, for the first time in my twenty-eight years, alone.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The average age of the offenders was twenty-eight, with a range of twenty to fifty-three years.

    Academic text (1991)

  • "And that was his reward for serving twenty-eight years, steadfastly, according to what he believed best."

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Hurricane Ivan, for instance, produced 67 percent of the HTS that occurred twenty-eight hours or more after landfall.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The sixty-four responses from PCPs in 1990 compare to twenty-eight responses from PCPs in 1984.

    Academic text (1993)

  • There are twenty-eight students in my class this semester.

Synonyms

28
vstwenty-eight
840 1.0

The number after twenty-seven

is the word form rather than numeric digits
XXVIII
vstwenty-eight
1 8.2

A Roman numeral that shows the number 28

is the word form rather than Roman numeral letters
xxviii
vstwenty-eight
9.3

A Roman numeral for twenty-eight

is the word form rather than Roman numeral letters

How Many

hundred
∞ 1.0
fifty
1.0
twenty-eight
31 1.0
twenty
∞ 1.0
ten
311 1.0
one
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

twenty-eight cardinal word
28 cardinal digit

Morphology

twenty-eight = twenty + eight (transparent) = twenty + eight

A straightforward numeric compound formed by combining 'twenty' and 'eight' to denote 20 + 8.

Etymology

The word twenty-eight comes from joining twenty ('two tens') and eight ('eight'), so it literally means 'two tens plus eight' and explains why the number is 20 + 8.