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Princeton's WordNet

  1. twenty-one, 21, XXInoun

    the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty and one

  2. blackjack, twenty-one, vingt-et-unadjective

    a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21

  3. twenty-one, 21, xxiadjective

    being one more than twenty

Wiktionary

  1. twenty-onenoun

    Blackjack.

  2. twenty-onenoun

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

Wikipedia

  1. twenty-one

    21 (twenty-one) is the natural number following 20 and preceding 22. The current century is the 21st century AD, under the Gregorian calendar.

ChatGPT

  1. twenty-one

    Twenty-one is the natural number following twenty and preceding twenty-two. It can also be expressed as a score in certain games, such as blackjack, or represent the legal adult age in several countries or districts.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of twenty-one in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of twenty-one in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of twenty-one in a Sentence

  1. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo:

    Twenty-one days of hell, and now we are back to where we were 21 days ago, testing is what we are compulsively or obsessively focused on now.

  2. Tony Dokoupil:

    Twenty-one percent of our votes hadnt materialized after four days.

  3. Rory McIlroy:

    This is a day I’ll remember for a long, long time. Twenty-one PGA Tour wins, one more than somebody else.

  4. Peter Hotez:

    Twenty one days means that there is a 5 percent or less likelihood that you could still develop Ebola if you don’t have symptoms, but there is also a case to be made that the risk isn’t as great after 14 to 15 days, twenty one days should be questioned.

  5. Mark Twain:

    When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.


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