TWENTY-NINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-nine mean? 

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

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

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

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

1. being nine more than twenty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-NINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

29; twenty-nine; XXIX

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

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

• TWENTY-NINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being nine more than twenty

Synonyms:

29; twenty-nine; xxix

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

St John was only twenty-nine, sir.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were only twenty-nine left out of the fifty!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Sarah was thirty-three, and Mary was twenty-nine when I married.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I take a gentleman to my house, no matter whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine, or ninety, I take him there in a spirit of confidence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Twenty-nine, I see.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The lady I had left might be about twenty-nine; the one who went with me appeared some years younger: the first impressed me by her voice, look, and air.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)