twenty-one
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- enPR: twĕn'tē wŭnʹ, IPA: /ˌtwɛntiˈwʌn/
- (parts of the UK) IPA: /ˌtwɛntiˈwɒn/
- (parts of the US and Canada) enPR: twŭn'tē wŭnʹ, IPA: /ˌtwʌntiˈwʌn/
- The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.
- eleventeen (nonce word)
- one and twenty
- Arabic numerals: 21
- Roman numerals: XXI
- French: vingt-et-un
- German: einundzwanzig
- Italian: ventuno
- Portuguese: vinte e um
- Russian: два́дцать оди́н
- Spanish: veintiuno
twenty-one (uncountable)
- (card games) Blackjack.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 398:
- They were to spend many an evening together sitting round the old kitchen table playing twentyone [...].
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 398:
- (sports) A basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points.
- French: vingt-et-un
- Portuguese: vinte-e-um
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