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Definition of Twenty-eighth
1. Adjective. Coming next after the twenty-seventh in position.
Definition of Twenty-eighth
1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number twenty-eight. ¹
2. Noun. The person or thing in the twenty-eighth position. ¹
3. Noun. One of twenty-eight equal parts of a whole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty-eighth
Literary usage of Twenty-eighth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"On the evening of the second of May I returned to Hilton Head, and there, for
the first time, received the New York papers of April I twenty-eighth, ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1896)
"THE Twenty-Eighth Annual General Meeting was held in the Library of the Institute,
Northumberland Avenue, on Tuesday, February 18, 1896. ..."
3. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers by Whitelaw Reid (1868)
"The Twenty-Eighth lost three killed and twenty-seven wounded. ... Two companies
of the Twenty-Eighth were sent across East River Mountain ..."
4. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1859)
"For twenty-eighth of thirty instalments for forty barrels of salt and , forty
kegs of tobacco, per fourth article treaty twenty-first September, ..."
5. The New York Red Book (1897)
"... ninth election district of the twenty- seventh assembly district; first to
fourteenth election districts of the twenty- eighth assembly district; ..."
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