twenty-sixth

[ twen-tee-siksth, twuhn- ]

adjective

1. next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
2. being one of 26 equal parts.

noun

1. a twenty-sixth part, especially of one (1/26).
2. the twenty-sixth member of a series.

Example Sentences

If she gave me a penny on January first and kept doubling it, on January twenty-sixth she would give me $335,544.

From Literature

His fingernails caked in soil, Fadi was about to call it quits when the earth loosened around a small tin box in their twenty-sixth pit.

From Literature

But then on the twenty-sixth of April last, Aunt Sponge—the late Aunt Sponge, I mean—happened to glance up at the ceiling, and she spotted her.

From Literature

She was the second Democrat in districts won by Trump to support the investigation, but only the hundred and twenty-sixth member of Congress as a whole.

From The New Yorker

The day of the meeting arrived, and we were led into Trump’s office, on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower, by his personal assistant, an elegant woman named Norma Foerderer.

From The New Yorker