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twenty-ninth

[ twen-tee-nahynth, twuhn- ]

adjective

  1. next after the twenty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 29.
  2. being one of 29 equal parts.


noun

  1. a twenty-ninth part, especially of one (1/29).
  2. the twenty-ninth member of a series.

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Example Sentences

This was the twenty-ninth consecutive judicial decision in the past 12 months holding that such are laws unconstitutional.

There is in existence what purports to be a letter from Napoleon to Murat, dated March twenty-ninth.

It was a warm, bright morning—that twenty-ninth of August in the year 1782.

At dawn on the twenty-ninth the English ships closed fairly in, and almost their last cartridge was spent ere the sun went down.

The commander who ruled over this fleet was a man still in his twenty-ninth year.

On the afternoon of the twenty-ninth day after leaving Panama the lookout reported land.

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