Meanings
- The cardinal number immediately following twenty-seven and preceding twenty-nine.
The lunar quality of Osiris's body is emphasized by his age of twenty-eight, the number of the phases of the moon.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217Synonyms: eight and twenty, 28, XXVIII
Synonyms & antonyms
numeralThe cardinal number immediately following twenty-seven and preceding twenty-nine.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebeing eight more than twenty
nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-seven and one
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans agt-en-twintig
- agt-en-twintignumber
Arabic ثَمَانِيَة وَعِشْرُون
- ثَمَانِيَة وَعِشْرُون (ṯamāniya wa-ʕišrūn)number
Basque hogeita zortzi
- hogeita zortzinumber
Bengali আঠাশ
- আঠাশ (aṭhaś)number
Catalan vint-i-vuit, vint-i-huit
- vint-i-vuitnumber
- vint-i-huitnumber
Chinese Cantonese 二十八
- 二十八 (ji⁶ sap⁶ baat³)number
Chinese Mandarin 二十八
- 二十八 (èrshíbā)number
Czech dvacet osm, osmadvacet
- dvacet osmnumber
- osmadvacetnumber
Danish otteogtyve
- otteogtyvenumber
Dutch achtentwintig
- achtentwintignumber
Esperanto dudek ok
- dudek oknumber
Estonian kakskümmend kaheksa
- kakskümmend kaheksanumber
Finnish kaksikymmentäkahdeksan
- kaksikymmentäkahdeksannumber
French vingt-huit
- vingt-huitnumber
German achtundzwanzig
- achtundzwanzignumber
Greek είκοσι-οκτώ
- είκοσι-οκτώ (eíkosi-októ)number
Hebrew עשרים־ושמנה
- עשרים־ושמנה (esrím və-shmoná)number
Hindi अट्ठाईस
- अट्ठाईस (aṭṭhāīs)number
Hungarian huszonnyolc
- huszonnyolcnumber
Indonesian dua puluh delapan
- dua puluh delapannumber
Irish fiche a hocht
- fiche a hochtnumber
Italian ventotto
- ventottonumber
Japanese 二十八
- 二十八 (nijūhachi)number
Korean 스물여덟, 이십팔
- 스물여덟 (seumuryeodeol)number
- 이십팔 (isip'pal)number
Latin duodetriginta
- duodetrigintanumber
Malay dua puluh lapan, lapan likur
- dua puluh lapannumber
- lapan likurnumber
Norwegian Bokmål tjueåtte
- tjueåttenumber
Polish dwadzieścia osiem
- dwadzieścia osiemnumber
Portuguese vinte e oito
- vinte e oitonumber
Punjabi ਅਠਾਈ
- ਅਠਾਈ (aṭhāī)number
Romanian douăzeci și opt
- douăzeci și optnumber
Russian два́дцать во́семь
- два́дцать во́семь (dvádcatʹ vósemʹ)number
Spanish veintiocho
- veintiochonumber
Swahili ishirini na nane
- ishirini na nanenumber
Swedish tjugoåtta
- tjugoåttanumber
Thai ยี่สิบแปด
- ยี่สิบแปด (yîi-sìp-bpɛ̀ɛt)number
Turkish yirmi sekiz
- yirmi sekiznumber
Ukrainian два́дцять ві́сім
- два́дцять ві́сім (dvádcjatʹ vísim)number
Urdu اٹھائیس
- اٹھائیس (aṭṭhāīs)number
Welsh wyth ar hugain, dau ddeg wyth
- wyth ar hugainnumber
- dau ddeg wythnumber
Yiddish אַכט און צוואַנציק
- אַכט און צוואַנציק (akht un tsvantsik)number
Cite this entry
twenty-eight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-eight
“twenty-eight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-eight. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “twenty-eight,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-eight.
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