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Definition of Twenty-six
1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-five and one.
2. Adjective. Being six more than twenty.
Definition of Twenty-six
1. Number. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-five and preceding twenty-seven. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty-six
Literary usage of Twenty-six
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1868)
"257. fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article treaty
seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty thousand dollars. ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"... ordnance and supply train, Lieutenant William Sager, one hundred and twenty-six ;
Third division, Twentieth army corps, ordnance and supply train, ..."
3. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"... five hundred and sixty-nine of the Laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen and
six hundred and twenty-six of the Laws of nineteen hundred and eighteen,'' ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"But upwards of what 1 is the question —of the highest point of land we may
naturally conclude ; therefore, as fifteen cubits is twenty-six feet, ..."
5. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"THE first twenty-six graves in the Virginia cemetery were occupied by murdered men.
So everybody said, so everybody believed, and so they will always say ..."
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