twenty-one

American  

[twen-tee-wuhn, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈwʌn, ˈtwʌn ti- /

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. Cards. Also 21. blackjack.

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adjective

1. amounting to 21 in number.

twenty-one British  

noun

1. another name (esp US) for pontoon 2

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Example Sentences

One hundred twenty-one of the 594 athletes on the American team — more than one in five — are from the state.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024

At least twenty-one people have died in southern Brazil, after a cyclone made landfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023

For twenty-one years she ruled over a prosperous and dominant Egypt, even conducting military campaigns into Nubia and possibly southern Palestine.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

But twenty-one states, including Georgia and New York, still keep homebuyers in the dark.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2023

He noted each detail about her as though he had not watched her every day for twenty-one years.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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