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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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.
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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
Others suggested five crowns, seventeen crowns, twenty-one crowns, twenty-eight crowns, or a full-mouth reconstruction.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
That Dyer burlesque—of self-ravelling and unravelling—stretched across a memoir (though the narrative essentially ends at twenty-one) quickly takes on a quality of mock-heroic completism.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
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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
Others suggested five crowns, seventeen crowns, twenty-one crowns, twenty-eight crowns, or a full-mouth reconstruction.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
That Dyer burlesque—of self-ravelling and unravelling—stretched across a memoir (though the narrative essentially ends at twenty-one) quickly takes on a quality of mock-heroic completism.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
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“Twenty-one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twenty-one. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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