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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Since his first year in captivity at age twenty-one, the Scotsman had been reduced from 135 to 82 pounds.
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Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
While leaving the event, he was stabbed twenty-one times.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The twenty-one essays that make up this collection, edited by Brooks along with Sariel Golomb and Garth Grimball, explore that link in all of its multiplicity.
—Chava Pearl Lansky, JSTOR Daily, 30 July 2025
Highlands | Price: $70 | Score: 99 pts Founded twenty-one years ago, Alexander Murray & Co. specializes in independent bottling of select scotches.
—Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
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Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
While leaving the event, he was stabbed twenty-one times.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The twenty-one essays that make up this collection, edited by Brooks along with Sariel Golomb and Garth Grimball, explore that link in all of its multiplicity.
—Chava Pearl Lansky, JSTOR Daily, 30 July 2025
Highlands | Price: $70 | Score: 99 pts Founded twenty-one years ago, Alexander Murray & Co. specializes in independent bottling of select scotches.
—Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
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“Twenty-one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twenty-one. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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