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View synonyms for twenty-one

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. another name (esp US) for pontoon 2
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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.

And by twenty-one, he had taken control of all the property and people he had inherited from his father.

“If you’re coming and you’re over twenty-one, my question is, ‘why now?’” he explained, referring to the legal buying age in Florida.

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

Three lawns a day, once a week, twenty-one lawns if I worked seven days, dawn till dark, no days off.

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