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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In twenty-one years, tens of thousands of citizens were detained and tortured, more than two hundred were killed, and another two hundred or so were disappeared.
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
In May of 2023, about two dozen small paintings were discovered in a box in the attic of a two-hundred-year-old clapboard mansion in Milledgeville, Georgia, where the writer Flannery O’Connor lived between the ages of eight and twenty-one.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
So Ice was out there with at least twenty, twenty-one guys, all on that one bus.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
Fourteen Final Four appearances, twenty-one appearances in Elite Eight and 28 in Sweet 16.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
In May of 2023, about two dozen small paintings were discovered in a box in the attic of a two-hundred-year-old clapboard mansion in Milledgeville, Georgia, where the writer Flannery O’Connor lived between the ages of eight and twenty-one.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
So Ice was out there with at least twenty, twenty-one guys, all on that one bus.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
Fourteen Final Four appearances, twenty-one appearances in Elite Eight and 28 in Sweet 16.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Twenty-one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twenty-one. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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