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TWENTY-SEVEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-six and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("twenty-seven" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being seven more than twenty
Synonyms:
27; twenty-seven; xxvii
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
And then, without rhyme or reason, all sceptical, my mind flew back to a small biographical note in the red-bound Who’s Who, and I said to myself, She was born in Cambridge, and she is twenty-seven years old.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
After them came twenty-seven sumpter horses carrying tent-poles, cloth, spare arms, spurs, wedges, cooking kettles, horse-shoes, bags of nails and the hundred other things which experience had shown to be needful in a harried and hostile country.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
