twenty-first

[twen-tee-furst, twuhn-]

adjective

1. next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.

2. being one of 21 equal parts.

noun

1. a twenty-first part, especially of one (1/21).

2. the twenty-first member of a series.

Example Sentences

Which brings us to "Look Up," his twenty-first studio album and easily his finest record in decades.

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“U.S. healthcare in the twenty-first century is not facile, not efficient, and not at all patient-centered.”

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At half past six on the twenty-first of June 1922, when Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was escorted through the gates of the Kremlin onto Red Square, it was glorious and cool.

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For twenty-first century readers, to be drawn and quartered is a particularly gruesome manner of death.

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"We find that rapid ocean warming, at approximately triple the historical rate, is likely committed over the twenty-first century, with widespread increases in ice-shelf melting, including in regions crucial for ice-sheet stability," the authors write.

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