TWENTY-SEVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-seven mean? 

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

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

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

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

1. being seven more than twenty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-SEVEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

27; twenty-seven; XXVII

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

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

• TWENTY-SEVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being seven more than twenty

Synonyms:

27; twenty-seven; xxvii

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

The eldest of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He was twenty-seven years of age, unmarried, and a clerk at Woolwich Arsenal.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well, I have been twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake.”

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

His age may have been about twenty-seven, his dress and bearing that of a gentleman.

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

A human life stage that begins at full term birth and continues until twenty-seven complete days of age.

(Full Term Neonatal Stage, NICHD)

"It has been refused by twenty-seven of them."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Bless me! How old I shall be, twenty-seven!" exclaimed Meg, who felt grown up already, having just reached seventeen.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Of the twenty-seven products analysed, twenty-two were deemed accurate and reliable.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

I had been with them five years, and old Coxon gave me a ripping good testimonial when the smash came, but of course we clerks were all turned adrift, the twenty-seven of us.

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

Poor old John, I have a great regard for him; he was clerk to my poor father twenty-seven years; and now, poor old man, he is bed-ridden, and very poorly with the rheumatic gout in his joints—I must go and see him to-day; and so will Jane, I am sure, if she gets out at all.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)