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twenty-one

noun · num · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • twĕn'tē wŭnʹ
  • /ˌtwɛntiˈwʌn/
  • /ˌtwɛntiˈwɒn/ parts of the UK
  • twŭn'tē wŭnʹ parts of the US and Canada
  • /ˌtwʌntiˈwʌn/ parts of the US and Canada
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: T W EH1 N T IY0 W AO2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Blackjack.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: card-games, games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

num

Meaning 3

The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

being one more than twenty

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 21, xxi

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blackjack, vingt-et-un

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: card game, cards

6

noun

Meaning 6

the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty and one

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 21, XXI

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large integer

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

131 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Danish: enogtyve — blackjack card game
  • Dutch: eenentwintigen — blackjack card game
  • French: vingt-et-un — blackjack card game
  • Portuguese: vinte e um — blackjack card game
  • Portuguese: vinte-e-um — blackjack card game
  • Swedish: tjugoett — blackjack card game
  • Afrikaans: een-en-twintig — cardinal number
  • Akan: aduonu baako — cardinal number
  • Amharic: ሃያ አንድ (haya ʾänd) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: وَاحِد وَعِشْرُون (wāḥid wa-ʕišrūn) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: واحد و عشرين (wāḥid u ʕišrīn) — cardinal number
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܸܣܪܝܼ ܘܚܲܕ݇ (ʿisrī w-ḥa) — cardinal number
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܸܣܪܝܼ ܘܚܕܵܐ (ʿisrī w-ḥdā) — cardinal number
  • Armenian: քսանմեկ (kʻsanmek) — cardinal number
  • Azerbaijani: iyirmi bir — cardinal number
  • Basque: hogeita bat — cardinal number
  • Belarusian: два́ццаць адзі́н (dváccacʹ adzín) — cardinal number
  • Bengali: একুশ (ekuś) — cardinal number
  • Breton: unan-warn-ugent — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: двадесет и едно (dvadeset i edno) — cardinal number
  • Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ့်တစ် (hnachcai.tac) — cardinal number
  • Catalan: vint-i-un — cardinal number
  • Cebuano: kawhaa`g usa — cardinal number
  • Cebuano: bayente uno — cardinal number
  • Chechen: ткъе цхьаъ (tqʼe cḥraʔ) — cardinal number
  • Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏍᎪ ᏌᏬ (talisgo sawo) — cardinal number
  • Chichewa: makumi awiri n'chimodzi — cardinal number
  • Chinese Cantonese: 二十一 (ji6 sap6 jat1) — cardinal number
  • Chinese Cantonese: 廿一 (jaa6 jat1) — cardinal number
  • Chinese Mandarin: 二十一 (èrshíyī) — cardinal number
  • Wu Chinese: 廿一 — cardinal number
  • Czech: dvacet jedna — cardinal number
  • Czech: jednadvacet — cardinal number
  • Danish: enogtyve — cardinal number
  • Dhivehi: އެކާވީސް (ekāvīs) — cardinal number
  • Dutch: eenentwintig — cardinal number
  • Esperanto: dudek unu — cardinal number
  • Estonian: kakskümmend üks — cardinal number
  • Ewe: blaeve vɔ ɖekɛ — cardinal number
  • Faroese: ein og tjúgu — cardinal number
  • Fijian: ruasagavulu ka dua — cardinal number
  • Finnish: kaksikymmentäyksi — cardinal number
  • French: vingt-et-un — cardinal number
  • West-Frisian: ienentweintich — cardinal number
  • Galician: vinte e un — cardinal number
  • Georgian: ოცდაერთი (ocdaerti) — cardinal number
  • German: einundzwanzig — cardinal number
  • Greek: είκοσι ένα (eíkosi éna) — cardinal number
  • Gujarati: એકવીસ (ekavīs) — cardinal number
  • Haitian Creole: venteyen — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: עשרים־ואחד (esrím və-ekhád) — cardinal number
  • Hindi: इक्कीस (ikkīs) — cardinal number
  • Hungarian: huszonegy — cardinal number
  • Icelandic: tuttugu og einn — cardinal number
  • Indonesian: dua puluh satu — cardinal number
  • Interlingua: vinti-un — cardinal number
  • Irish: fiche a haon — cardinal number
  • Irish: noun is fiche — cardinal number
  • Italian: ventuno — cardinal number
  • Japanese: 二十一 (nijūichi) — cardinal number
  • Javanese: salikur — cardinal number
  • Javanese: selikur — cardinal number
  • Kannada: ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತೊಂದು (ippattondu) — cardinal number
  • Kazakh: жиырма бір (jiyrma bır) — cardinal number
  • Khmer: ម្ភៃមួយ (mphey muəy) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 스물하나 (seumulhana) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 이십일 (isibil) — cardinal number
  • Central Kurdish: بیست و یەک (bîst û yek) — cardinal number
  • Kyrgyz: жыйырма бир (jıyırma bir) — cardinal number
  • Lakota: wikčémna núŋpa aké waŋží — cardinal number
  • Lao: ຊາວເອັດ (sāo ē ʼat) — cardinal number
  • Latin: viginti unus — cardinal number
  • Latvian: divdesmit viens — cardinal number
  • Louisiana Creole: vin-ché-un — cardinal number
  • : ᦌᦱᧁᦵᦀᧆ (saaw ̇ʼed) — cardinal number
  • Macedonian: два́есет и е́ден (dváeset i éden) — cardinal number
  • Malay: dua puluh satu — cardinal number
  • Malay: selikur — cardinal number
  • Malay: satu likur — cardinal number
  • Malayalam: ഇരുപത്തൊന്ന് (irupattonnŭ) — cardinal number
  • Malayalam: ഇരുപത്തിയൊന്ന് (irupattiyonnŭ) — cardinal number
  • Maltese: wieħed u għoxrin — cardinal number
  • Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠨ ᡝᠮᡠ (orin emu) — cardinal number
  • Māori: rua tekau mā tahi — cardinal number
  • Māori: rua ngahuru mā tahi — cardinal number
  • Central Sierra Miwok: naˀ·á- kéŋ·e-ˀ hej·i-ˀ — cardinal number
  • Classical Nahuatl: cempōhualli oncē — cardinal number
  • Navajo: naadįįłaʼ — cardinal number
  • Nheengatu: irundí-pú-yepé — cardinal number
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tjueen — cardinal number
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tjueén — cardinal number
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tjueein — cardinal number
  • Ojibwe: niishtanashi-bezhig — cardinal number
  • Old English: ān and twēntiġ — cardinal number
  • Pennsylvania German: een un zwansich — cardinal number
  • Persian: بیست و یک (bist-o-yek) — cardinal number
  • Polish: dwadzieścia jeden — cardinal number
  • Portuguese: vinte e um — cardinal number
  • Punjabi: ਇੱਕੀ (ikkī) — cardinal number
  • Quechua: iskay chunka hukniyuq — cardinal number
  • Romanian: douăzeci și unu — cardinal number
  • Russian: два́дцать оди́н (dvádcatʹ odín) — cardinal number
  • Samoan: luasefulu tasi — cardinal number
  • Sanskrit: एकविंशति (ékaviṃśati) — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: двадесет и један — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: dvadeset i jedan — cardinal number
  • Shan: သၢဝ်းဢဵတ်း (sáao ʼáet) — cardinal number
  • Slovene: enaindvajset — cardinal number
  • Spanish: veintiuno — cardinal number
  • Swedish: tjugoett — cardinal number
  • Swedish: tjugoen — cardinal number
  • Sylheti: ꠄꠇꠂꠡ (exoiśo) — cardinal number
  • Tagalog: beynte uno — cardinal number
  • Tagalog: dalawmpu't isa — cardinal number
  • Tamil: இருபத்தொன்று (irupattoṉṟu) — cardinal number
  • Telugu: ఇరవై ఒకటి (iravai okaṭi) — cardinal number
  • Thai: ยี่สิบเอ็ด (yîi-sìp-èt) — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: tupela ten wan — cardinal number
  • Tongan: uofulu mā taha — cardinal number
  • Turkish: yirmi bir — cardinal number
  • Ukrainian: два́дцять оди́н (dvádcjatʹ odýn) — cardinal number
  • Urdu: اکیس (ikkīs) — cardinal number
  • Uyghur: يىگىرمە بىر (yigirme bir) — cardinal number
  • Vietnamese: hai mươi mốt — cardinal number
  • Volapük: teldegbal — cardinal number
  • Volapük: telsebal — cardinal number
  • Welsh: un ar hugain — cardinal number
  • Welsh: dau ddeg un — cardinal number
  • Welsh: trisaith — cardinal number
  • Yiddish: איין און צוואַנציק (eyn un tsvantsik) — cardinal number
  • Yup'ik: yuinaq atauciq — cardinal number
Real reading context

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