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  • adjective one more than twenty; twenty plus one more; denoting a quantity consisting of twenty-one items or units; -- representing the number twenty-one as Arabic numerals.

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  • noun The cardinal number twenty-one.

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  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty and one
  • adjective being one more than twenty

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  • The portion size when, next year, Dara Torres is sawn in half during a magic act.

    December 13, 2008