twenty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 21 or XXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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Cards. Also 21. blackjack.
adjective
noun
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The capsule bounced in the waves for twenty-one minutes, until the navy destroyer Noa picked him up.
From Literature
Just twenty-one years after World War I ended, World War II erupted, killing four times as many people.
From Literature
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
And by twenty-one, he had taken control of all the property and people he had inherited from his father.
From Literature
“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.
From Seattle Times
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