TWENTY-EIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-eight mean? 

• TWENTY-EIGHT (noun)
  The noun TWENTY-EIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-seven and one

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-EIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

• TWENTY-EIGHT (adjective)
  The adjective TWENTY-EIGHT has 1 sense:

1. being eight more than twenty

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-EIGHT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-EIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

28; twenty-eight; XXVIII

Hypernyms ("twenty-eight" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• TWENTY-EIGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being eight more than twenty

Synonyms:

28; twenty-eight; xxviii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Now I am twenty-eight and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)