Definition

1. Noun:

   • The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-eight and one: It represents the quantity or count of 29 items. It follows twenty-eight and precedes thirty.
   • The symbol representing this number: This can be the numeral "29" or the word "twenty-nine".

2. Adjective:

   • Being nine more than twenty: Used to describe a quantity of exactly twenty-nine items or units.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • The answer to the math problem is twenty-nine.
  • She celebrated her twenty-ninth birthday last week. (Note: Here, "twenty-ninth" is the ordinal form derived from the cardinal number "twenty-nine".)

• Adjective:

  • There are twenty-nine students in the classroom.
  • He collected twenty-nine different stamps.

Advanced Usage

• "Twenty-nine" in sequences and series: Often used to denote a position or count in a list, age, or score.
  • Chapter twenty-nine of the book is the most exciting.
• Mathematical context: Used in arithmetic, such as "twenty-nine plus eleven equals forty."

Variants and Related Words

• 29: The Arabic numeral form.
• XXIX: The Roman numeral form.
• Twenty-ninth (29th): The ordinal number derived from "twenty-nine", meaning coming after the twenty-eighth in position.
  • This is my twenty-ninth attempt.

Synonyms

• 29: The numeric symbol.
• Nine and twenty: An older or poetic form, though rarely used in modern English.

Related Phrases

• Twenty-nine and holding: A humorous idiom suggesting someone is claiming to be perpetually twenty-nine years old to avoid admitting they are older.
  • She jokes that she's twenty-nine and holding.
• The twenty-ninth of February: Refers to Leap Day, which occurs only in leap years.
  • They got married on the twenty-ninth of February.

Noun

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

Adjective

1. being nine more than twenty