twenty-seven

Meanings

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   the cardinal number equal to two tens plus seven; 27

   The lease ran for twenty-seven years.

A compound of twenty + seven. Twenty descends from Old English twentig, literally 'two tens,' while seven comes from Old English seofon. Modern English normally hyphenates compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine when they are written as words.

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