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twenty-nine

American  
[twen-tee-nahyn, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈnaɪn, ˈtwʌn- /

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 9.

  2. a symbol for this number, as 29 or XXIX.

  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 29 in number.

Example Sentences

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There were twenty-eight of the little fellows and Jimbo—twenty-nine in all.

From Literature

Muriel Spark’s protagonist—“she might be as young as twenty-nine or as old as thirty-six”—comes to us, at first, as a burlesque.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Turk, a man, and Dido, a woman, received lesser sentences—twenty-nine lashes each—since their role in the plot was not fully proved.

From Literature

It said that twenty-nine members of staff based at the Peterlee site had been kept on to help with trading.

From BBC

Finally twenty-nine Funny, just like you were at the time Thought it was a teenage dream, just a fantasy But was it yours or was it mine?

From Salon