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
Example Sentences
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Daisy had told me that if any boy who wasn’t twenty-one years old yet cussed, his tongue would rot out of his head.
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“There’s a keypad by the entryway. The code is twenty-one ST.”
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Sue and Bruce were both young—Sue was twenty-one years old and Bruce was twenty-two.
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“We’ve no neighbors; the next nearest house is a good twenty-one miles away. It’s a long way yet,” said Frank Aureate.
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The capsule bounced in the waves for twenty-one minutes, until the navy destroyer Noa picked him up.
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