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Definition of Twenty-seventh
1. Adjective. Coming next after the twenty-sixth in position.
Definition of Twenty-seventh
1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number twenty-seven. Abbreviation: 27th, 27th ¹
2. Noun. The person or thing in the twenty-seventh position. ¹
3. Noun. One of twenty-seven equal parts of a whole. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty-seventh
Literary usage of Twenty-seventh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1859)
"... provisions, and agricultural implements, per sixth article treaty twenty-
seventh July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, seven thousand dollars. ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"On the morning of February twenty-seventh, 1865, we marched from Winchester up
the valley pike with live days' rations in haversacks, and fifteen days' ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... twenty-seventh CONGRESS Special session of Senate — 4-15 March 1841.
First session — 31 May to 13 Sept. 1841. Second session — 6 Dec. 1841 to 31 Aug. ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"NB Buford, of the twenty-seventh Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, is charged by
me for the delivery of said prisoners, to such person as you may authorize ..."
5. The Life and Times of Henry Clay by Calvin Calton (1846)
"Disclosures of Extravagance and Corruption made by the Twenty- Seventh Congress
... THE great measure of the twenty-seventh Congress was the tariff of 1842, ..."
6. The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America from by United States (1859)
"seventh August, seventeen hundred and ninety, and fifth article treaty twenty-seventh
August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand five hundred ..."
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