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twenty-eighth

twenty-eighth

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The position that comes after twenty-seven in a list
  • adjective
  • /ˌtwɛntiˈeɪθ/
translation icon : vigésimo octavo
  • "Today is September twenty-eighth.
  • twenty-eighth birthday
  • twenty-eighth floor
  • twenty-eighth of August

Examples

  • Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eighth President of the United States.

  • He signed for delivery on the twenty-eighth.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • This is my twenty-eighth year at it.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • "My birthday was February twenty-eighth.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Croatia will join the European Union in July 2013 to become the twenty-eighth country in the EU.

    Blog text (26)

  • A few days ago, on his twenty-eighth birthday, he opened the birthday greeting Clara had tucked in his trunk.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Woodrow Wilson, who was a professor and president at Princeton University before becoming the twenty-eighth president of the United States, blamed the historical illiteracy of his contemporaries on "a certain great degeneracy," born of misplaced trust in science:

    Academic text (2005)

  • Croatia will join the European Union in July 2013 to become the twenty-eighth country in the EU.

  • On the twenty-eighth of November, Alice had thought to go to the grave site.

Synonyms

28th
vstwenty-eighth
18 1.0

After the twenty-seventh in order

is the same meaning but written in words instead of digits

Surface Forms

twenty-eighth positive

Morphology

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

The ordinal is formed regularly by adding the ordinal suffix '-th' to the cardinal 'twenty-eight', a standard and transparent process for learners.

Etymology

The word twenty-eighth is made from twenty ('two tens') and eighth ('the eighth one'), so it means 'the eighth one after twenty' and shows position 28 in a list.