twenty-one

[ twen-tee-wuhn, twuhn- ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 1.
2. a symbol for this number, as 21 or XXI.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. Also 21. Cards. blackjack ( def 1a ).

adjective

1. amounting to 21 in number.

twenty-one

noun

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

Example Sentences

Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

Put that first twenty-one years of life in your David Copperfield pipe and smoke it.

From The Daily Beast

He had been decorated for bravery nineteen times in his twenty-one-year career.

From The Daily Beast

It is now about five p.m. and the temperature is one hundred and twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Daily Beast

After my sister married I took care of my father until I was twenty-one, when he died—four years ago.

From Project Gutenberg

But the work of life does not begin till education ends at the age of twenty-one.

From Project Gutenberg

This organ comprised no less than ninety-five ranks of Mixture, including two stops of twenty-one and twenty ranks, respectively.

From Project Gutenberg

During the whole of 1813 that engine was reported to average a duty of twenty-one millions.

From Project Gutenberg

During the year 1814 Dolcoath great engine, with a cylinder of 63 inches in diameter, did twenty-one and a half millions nearly.

From Project Gutenberg

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