TWENTY-SIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-six mean? 

• TWENTY-SIX (noun)
  The noun TWENTY-SIX has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-SIX used as a noun is very rare.

• TWENTY-SIX (adjective)
  The adjective TWENTY-SIX has 1 sense:

1. being six more than twenty

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-SIX used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-SIX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-five and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

26; twenty-six; XXVI

Hypernyms ("twenty-six" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• TWENTY-SIX (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being six more than twenty

Synonyms:

26; twenty-six; xxvi

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

There’s twenty-six of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen for the market.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, at the age of twenty-six, I was hopeless.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a long document, written in the French language, and containing twenty-six separate articles.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You and I will be twenty-six, Teddy, Beth twenty-four, and Amy twenty-two. What a venerable party!" said Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the meantime, talk as we pleased, there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of these seven one was a boy, so that the grown men on our side were six to their nineteen.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Twenty-six voyages.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was a five-hundred-ton boat, and besides her thirty-eight gaol-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Listen to this: ‘Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten o’clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was dressed in,’ etc., etc.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)