twenty-first
next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
being one of 21 equal parts.
a twenty-first part, especially of one (1/21).
the twenty-first member of a series.
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How to use twenty-first in a sentence
Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
Except in the twenty-first, the consequences may be more dire.
Technology that stealthily decimates in the blink of an eye, that is what is what Israel needs in the twenty-first Century.
A bar open at three in the afternoon makes you want to organize a parade for the twenty-first Amendment.
Surviving War Doesn’t Turn All Veterans into Victims, Sometimes it Helps Them Grow | David Morris | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCapital in the twenty-first Century By Thomas Piketty ‘Capital in the twenty-first Century’ by Thomas Piketty.
Now this younger son—I believe that he is in his twenty-first year at present—has been something of a scapegrace.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniA person becomes of age at the beginning of the day before his twenty-first birthday.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesHe wears the same corduroy pants that Uncle Ben gave him on his twenty-first birthday.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyOf this lady he was deprived by her dying in child-birth in 1612, before attaining her twenty-first year.
The Fortunes of Nigel | Sir Walter ScottViewed as written either in 1589, or in the reign of James, much of the twenty-first book is without meaning.
Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing
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