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twenty-one
[ twen-tee-wuhn, twuhn- ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 20 plus 1.
- a symbol for this number, as 21 or XXI.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- Also 21. Cards. blackjack ( def 1a ).
adjective
- amounting to 21 in number.
twenty-one
Example Sentences
Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.
Twenty-one of them are Kurdish activist journalists and 30 are women and children.
Put that first twenty-one years of life in your David Copperfield pipe and smoke it.
He had been decorated for bravery nineteen times in his twenty-one-year career.
It is now about five p.m. and the temperature is one hundred and twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit.
After my sister married I took care of my father until I was twenty-one, when he died—four years ago.
But the work of life does not begin till education ends at the age of twenty-one.
This organ comprised no less than ninety-five ranks of Mixture, including two stops of twenty-one and twenty ranks, respectively.
During the whole of 1813 that engine was reported to average a duty of twenty-one millions.
During the year 1814 Dolcoath great engine, with a cylinder of 63 inches in diameter, did twenty-one and a half millions nearly.
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