Definitions
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- noun The cardinal number occurring after
twenty and beforetwenty-two , represented in Roman numerals asXXI and in Arabic numerals as21 . - noun card games
Blackjack . - noun sports A basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty and one
- noun 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
- adjective being one more than twenty
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Examples
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Until next year, when I shall be twenty-one, that is.
To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000
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Until next year, when I shall be twenty-one, that is.
To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000
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Until next year, when I shall be twenty-one, that is.
To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000
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Until next year, when I shall be twenty-one, that is.
To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000
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It was a daring bet, but we put our delegate operation into overdrive, and in the last week of May we turned over a list of twenty-one hundred delegates to Rob Gunnison, a political reporter and chief delegate counter for UPI.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The Selective Training and Service Act, signed into law by Roosevelt in September 1940, required that men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-five register with local draft boards.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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It was a daring bet, but we put our delegate operation into overdrive, and in the last week of May we turned over a list of twenty-one hundred delegates to Rob Gunnison, a political reporter and chief delegate counter for UPI.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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It was a daring bet, but we put our delegate operation into overdrive, and in the last week of May we turned over a list of twenty-one hundred delegates to Rob Gunnison, a political reporter and chief delegate counter for UPI.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Of white men aged twenty-one to thirty-four, weekly churchgoing rose from 28 percent in 1952 to 44 percent in 1964.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Twenty-one states require children to attend school until the age of 18; eight states require attendance until age 17; twenty-one states require attendance until age 16.
Laura McNeal: Obama's Call to Action: Political Theatrics or Authentic School Reform? Laura McNeal 2012
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