twenty-one
noun
twen·ty-one
ˌtwen-tē-ˈwən 
ˌtwən-
1
: a number that is one more than 20 see Table of Numbers
2
[translation of French vingt-et-un]
: blackjack sense 1
twenty-one
adjective
twenty-one
pronoun, plural in construction
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To be going home to Sunday dinner at one o’clock, sweat socks pungent from twenty-one innings of softball, underwear athletically gamy.
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Five years ago, during the Brown Sugar tour, D was a shy twenty-one-year-old Virginia country boy who hid behind his keyboard onstage.
—Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
The Smithsonian on October 12 closed all twenty-one of the museums operating under its auspices as the US government shutdown begun on October 1 continued to draw on.
—News Desk, Artforum, 13 Oct. 2025
So far, four boats have been destroyed, resulting in the deaths of twenty-one people.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Five years ago, during the Brown Sugar tour, D was a shy twenty-one-year-old Virginia country boy who hid behind his keyboard onstage.
—Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
The Smithsonian on October 12 closed all twenty-one of the museums operating under its auspices as the US government shutdown begun on October 1 continued to draw on.
—News Desk, Artforum, 13 Oct. 2025
So far, four boats have been destroyed, resulting in the deaths of twenty-one people.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for twenty-one
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“Twenty-one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twenty-one. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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