twenty-one

[ twen-tee-wuhn, twuhn- ]

/ ˈtwɛn tiˈwʌn, ˈtwʌn- /

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noun

a cardinal number, 20 plus 1.

a symbol for this number, as 21 or XXI.

a set of this many persons or things.

Also 21. Also called blackjack. a gambling game at cards, in which the object is to obtain from the dealer cards whose values add up to, or close to, 21 but which do not exceed it.

adjective

amounting to 21 in number.

Words nearby twenty-one

twenty-fourmo, twenty-fourth, twenty-fourth amendment, twenty-nine, twenty-ninth, twenty-one, twenty-second, twenty-second amendment, twenty-seven, twenty-seventh, twenty-seventh amendment

Example sentences from the Web for twenty-one

Twenty-one of them are Kurdish activist journalists and 30 are women and children.

Kobani Still Stands Against ISIS and All Odds. But for How Long? |Jamie Dettmer |October 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Put that first twenty-one years of life in your David Copperfield pipe and smoke it.

Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up |Tom Boswell |September 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It is now about five p.m. and the temperature is one hundred and twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit.

Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq |Nathan Bradley Bethea |August 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Twenty-one were stabbed in a Pennsylvania school rampage this week, but all are expected to live—and one even took a selfie.

The Best of the Beast, April 7-April 13 |The Daily Beast |April 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Twenty-one were stabbed in a Pennsylvania school rampage Wednesday, but all are expected to live—and one even took a selfie.

Thank God the Murrysville School Attack Wasn’t Guns |Michael Daly |April 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I expect that twenty-one of her girls have refused John Gesner, laughed Mr. Wadsworth.

Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline |Jennie M. Drinkwater
There were twenty-one entrants, and fully 300,000 spectators gathered to witness the initial flight of the aerial races.

Flying Machines |W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
Most of its members were nominated at birth or in childhood and elected as soon as they were twenty-one.

The Grain Of Dust |David Graham Phillips
We were twenty-one days thus imprisoned, never leaving a little circle of some six miles radius.

Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack |Elisha Kent Kane
When I was young, girls used to go in for society; they danced their feet off from seventeen to twenty-one.

A Little Journey in the World |Charles Dudley Warner

British Dictionary definitions for twenty-one

twenty-one

noun

another name (esp US) for pontoon 2 (def. 1)

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adjective

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