twenty-first
[twen-tee-furst, twuhn-]
- next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- being one of 21 equal parts.
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- a twenty-first part, especially of one (1/21).
- the twenty-first member of a series.
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Examples from the Web for twenty-first
Contemporary Examples
Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
Except in the twenty-first, the consequences may be more dire.
Technology that stealthily decimates in the blink of an eye, that is what is what Israel needs in the Twenty-First Century.
A bar open at three in the afternoon makes you want to organize a parade for the Twenty-first Amendment.
Surviving War Doesn’t Turn All Veterans into Victims, Sometimes it Helps Them GrowDavid Morris
May 18, 2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century By Thomas Piketty ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ by Thomas Piketty.
Historical Examples
But this is rambling far from the momentous twenty-first of June, my day of triumph.
The Fortune HunterLouis Joseph Vance
I was about to pursue the statement that on my twenty-first birthday I gave a party, and She was there.
The Uncommercial TravellerCharles Dickens
We took the two-twenty train from Charing Cross on the afternoon of the twenty-first.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
I have telegraphed the Heptons that we will join them in Paris on the evening of the twenty-first.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
What better is my twenty-first 105 birthday than any other day?
An Orkney MaidAmelia Edith Huddleston Barr