twenty-one

English

Alternative forms

• twenty one
• twentyone

Pronunciation

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Number

twenty-one

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

Synonyms

• one and twenty
• Arabic numerals: 21
• Roman numerals: XXI

Related terms

• Ordinal: twenty-first

Translations

cardinal number

Arabic: واحد وعشرون (wāħid wi-ʕišrun) Azeri: iyirmi bir (az) Basque: hogeita bat (eu) Breton: unan-warn-ugent Bulgarian: двадесет и едно Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ့်တစ် (my) (hnăhsè.tit) Catalan: vint-i-un (ca) Cebuano: kawhaa`g usa, bayente uno Chechen: ткъе цхьаъ (tqe cxha’) Chinese: Mandarin: 二十一 (zh) (èr shí yī) Danish: enogtyve (da) Dutch: eenentwintig (nl) f. Esperanto: dudek unu (eo) Estonian: kakskümmend üks Ewe: blaeve vo ɖekɛ Finnish: kaksikymmentäyksi (fi) French: vingt-et-un (fr) m. German: einundzwanzig (de) f. Greek: είκοσι ένα (eíkosi éna) Haitian Creole: venteyen Hebrew: עשרים־ואחד (esrím və-ekhád) Hindi: इक्कीस (ikkīs) Hungarian: huszonegy (hu) Icelandic: tuttugu og einn (is) Interlingua: vinti-un (ia) Irish: fiche a haon (ga), aon is fiche (ga)

Italian: ventuno (it) Japanese: 二十一 (ni-jū-ichí) Korean: 스물 하나 (ko) (seumul hana) Latin: viginti unus Latvian: divdesmit viens Macedonian: дваесет и еден (mk) (dváeset i éden) Maltese: wieħed u għoxrin Navajo: naadįįłaʼ Norwegian: tjueen (no) Novial: duanti-un Polish: dwadzieścia jeden Portuguese: vinte e um Romanian: douăzeci și unu (ro) Russian: двадцать один (ru) (dvádtsat’ odín) Sanskrit: एकविंशति (sa) (ékaviṃśati) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: двадесет и један Roman: dvadeset i jedan Slovene: enaindvajset (sl) Spanish: veintiuno (es) m. Swedish: tjugoett (sv) Tagalog: beintyuno (tl) Telugu: ఇరవై ఒకటి (te) (iravai okaTi) Turkish: yirmi bir (tr) Urdu: اکیس (ikkīs) Vietnamese: hai mười mốt West Frisian: ienentweintich

See also

• twenty
• twenty-two

Noun

twenty-one

1. (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 [...].

Translations

blackjack card game

Danish: enogtyve (da) Dutch: eenentwintigen n.

Portuguese: vinte-e-um (pt) m. Swedish: tjugoett (sv) n.

See also

• baccarat
• blackjack
• pontoon