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twenty-one

numeralnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˌtwɛntiˈwʌn//
  • //ˌtwɛntiˈwɒn//
  • //ˌtwʌntiˈwʌn//

The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.

numeral

  1. 1

    The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.

noun

  1. 1

    Blackjack.

    They were to spend many an evening together sitting round the old kitchen table playing twentyone ….

  2. 2

    A basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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