twenty-eighth

American  

[twen-tee-eytth, -eyth, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ, ˈtwʌn- /

adjective

1. next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.

2. being one of 28 equal parts.

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noun

1. a twenty-eighth part, especially of one (1/28).

2. the twenty-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

Amaya handed me a piece of paper listing “solutions” he’d come up with, including a twenty-eighth amendment, calling for a doubling of the size of Congress with citizens drafted by lottery from every congressional district.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019

His law firm, on the twenty-eighth floor of a Seattle office building, has filed hundreds of lawsuits against many of the largest food producers in the world.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2015

From later down in the piece: One evening last March, this small-town icon was in a Milledgeville, Georgia, bar to celebrate his twenty-eighth birthday.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2011

For Bruce, this event marked his highest placing of the year, and while not entirely out of the woods, his requalification status is looking much better now that he's sitting in the twenty-eighth spot.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last president to grow up in a slaveholding household was Woodrow Wilson, who became the twenty-eighth president in 1913.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis