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Definition of Twenty-eight

1. Adjective. Being eight more than twenty.

2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-seven and one.

Definition of Twenty-eight

1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-seven and preceding twenty-nine. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty-eight

twelvemos twelveness twelvepence twelvepenny twelvepenny nail twelves twelvescore twelveth twenny twentie

twenties twentieth twentiethly twentieths twenty twenty-eight (current term) twenty-eighth twenty-eighths twenty-fifth twenty-fifths

twenty-first twenty-firsts twenty-five twenty-five-eight twenty-five-thousander twenty-five-thousanders twenty-five/eight twenty-five past twenty-five percent twenty-five to

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, ..."

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