twenty-seventh love

Definitions

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  • adjective The ordinal form of the number twenty-seven. Abbreviation: 27th, 27th
  • noun The person or thing in the twenty-seventh position.
  • noun One of twenty-seven equal parts of a whole.

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  • adjective coming next after the twenty-sixth in position

Etymologies

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twenty-seven + -th

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Examples

  • I fit right into the category, moving here days before my twenty-seventh birthday.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • African Americans, in contrast, would rank a depressing twenty-seventh, while Hispanic Americans would rank even lower at thirty-second.

    Max Benavidez: Latinos, Numbers and the Real World Max Benavidez 2011

  • And as he had only just celebrated his twenty-seventh birthday, he could reasonably hope that there were still many years ahead of him to lead his army to the ends of the earth.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • For the twenty-seventh time that day, my cell phone rang.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • And as he had only just celebrated his twenty-seventh birthday, he could reasonably hope that there were still many years ahead of him to lead his army to the ends of the earth.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • How could I resist being a villain invading enemy camp, especially on a night when my Yankees could silence Citizens Bank Park with their twenty-seventh baseball championship?

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • For the twenty-seventh time that day, my cell phone rang.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • December 13 was the twenty-seventh day of Ramadan, an especially sacred day in the Muslim calendar, when the Prophet Mohammed had received the first verses of the Koran.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • While jazzed up about returning the postseason, they had a division championship to lock up, a pennant to win, and a twenty-seventh championship banner to hoist in their new ballpark.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • What actually happened was this: I spent my twenty-seventh birthday alternately telling her I was going to throw her off the balcony and threatening to urinate on her, until she began crying.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

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