twenty-seventh

American  

[twen-tee-sev-uhnth, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈsɛv ənθ, ˈtwʌn- /

adjective

1. next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.

2. being one of 27 equal parts.

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noun

1. a twenty-seventh part, especially of one (1/27).

2. the twenty-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

Peter Jacobsen, who’d tied for twenty-seventh at Kemper Lakes, found Payne later at a private reception for the winner of the Wanamaker Trophy.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 7, 2019

Productivity at Warsaw's Zeran Automobile Works is down to one twenty-seventh of the prevailing rate at U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the advertising ranks, Bleiler shows up in tenth place, Tara Dakides holds the twenty-sixth spot with Janna Meyen right on her tail in twenty-seventh, and Jessica Dalpiaz holds on to fiftieth place.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is here that his twenty-seventh birthday is celebrated, the first birthday in his life that he hasn’t spent with his own parents, either in Calcutta or on Pemberton Road.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

I asked about the break through and he said that he had heard at the Brigade that the Austrians had broken through the twenty-seventh army corps up toward Caporetto.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway