|
|
Definition of Twenty-eight
1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-seven and one.
2. Adjective. Being eight more than twenty.
Definition of Twenty-eight
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-seven and preceding twenty-nine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty-eight
Literary usage of Twenty-eight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"If a man was incapacitated for twenty-eight days there would be a time measure.
... COCHRANE : No man would remain off for twenty-eight days if he was not ..."
2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"... twenty clerks of class two, twenty-eight thousand dollars ; twelve clerks of
class one, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars ; twelve copyists, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"It has been supposed that those nations '» whose astronomy the twenty-eight
mansions lull appear adopted one system, while the use of tie twelve signs ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"I'll at of a month is more ambiguous: there being, in common use, two ways of
calculating months; either as lunar, consisting of twenty-eight days, ..."
5. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"The House of Lords was further augmented on the Union with Ireland in 1801, by
the addition of twenty-eight Irish representative peers, elected, ..."
Other Resources:
