twenty-eight
num/ˌtwɛntiˈeɪt/
1
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 217:
- Synonyms
- eight and twenty, 28, XXVIII
- Related terms
- twenty-seven, twenty-nine