Definitions for twenty-one

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twenty-one twen·ty-one

Spelling: [twen-tee-wuhn, twuhn-]

IPA: /ˈtwɛn tiˈwʌn, ˈtwʌn-/

Twenty-One is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in twenty-one (-eennottwy).

Definitions for twenty-one

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 1.
2. a symbol for this number, as 21 or XXI.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. Also, 21.Also called blackjack. a gambling game at cards, in which the object is to obtain from the dealer cards whose values add up to, or close to, 21 but which do not exceed it.

adjective

1. amounting to 21 in number.

Examples for twenty-one

Some say when he was twenty-one, as soon as his wife presented him with twins, in 1585.

twenty-one were stabbed in a Pennsylvania school rampage this week, but all are expected to live—and one even took a selfie.

The barytone was still singing; but now it was "I'm twenty-one, and she's eighteen."

It is now about five p.m. and the temperature is one hundred and twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit.

All the sales of sheep and lambs are by the "clad score" which contains twenty-one.

twenty-one of them are Kurdish activist journalists and 30 are women and children.

There are forty-one of these ribs, twenty-one on the upper and twenty on the lower plane.

twenty-one were stabbed in a Pennsylvania school rampage Wednesday, but all are expected to live—and one even took a selfie.

Put that first twenty-one years of life in your David Copperfield pipe and smoke it.

"I'm twenty-one and she's eighteen," hummed the ward under its breath.