Meanings
alternative twenty one · alternative twentyone
- The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.
Synonyms: eleventeen, one and twenty, 21, XXI
alternative twenty one · alternative twentyone
- uncountablecard gamesBlackjack.
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 - uncountablehobbiesA basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points.
Synonyms & antonyms
numeralThe cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebeing one more than twenty
nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of twenty and one
nouna 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans een-en-twintig
- een-en-twintigcardinal number
Arabic وَاحِد وَعِشْرُون
- وَاحِد وَعِشْرُون (wāḥid wa-ʕišrūn)cardinal number
Basque hogeita bat
- hogeita batcardinal number
Bengali একুশ
- একুশ (ekuś)cardinal number
Bulgarian двадесет и едно
- двадесет и едно (dvadeset i edno)cardinal number
Catalan vint-i-un
- vint-i-uncardinal number
Chinese Cantonese 二十一, 廿一
- 二十一 (ji⁶ sap⁶ jat¹)cardinal number
- 廿一 (jaa⁶ jat¹)cardinal number
Chinese Mandarin 二十一
- 二十一 (èrshíyī)cardinal number
Czech dvacet jedna, jednadvacet
- dvacet jednacardinal number
- jednadvacetcardinal number
Danish enogtyve, enogtyve
- enogtyvecardinal number
- enogtyveblackjack card game
Dutch eenentwintig, eenentwintigen
- eenentwintigcardinal number
- eenentwintigenblackjack card game
Esperanto dudek unu
- dudek unucardinal number
Estonian kakskümmend üks
- kakskümmend ükscardinal number
Finnish kaksikymmentäyksi
- kaksikymmentäyksicardinal number
French vingt-et-un, vingt-et-un
- vingt-et-uncardinal number
- vingt-et-unblackjack card game
German einundzwanzig
- einundzwanzigcardinal number
Greek είκοσι ένα
- είκοσι ένα (eíkosi éna)cardinal number
Hebrew עשרים־ואחד
- עשרים־ואחד (esrím və-ekhád)cardinal number
Hindi इक्कीस
- इक्कीस (ikkīs)cardinal number
Hungarian huszonegy
- huszonegycardinal number
Icelandic tuttugu og einn
- tuttugu og einncardinal number
Indonesian dua puluh satu
- dua puluh satucardinal number
Irish fiche a haon, noun is fiche
- fiche a haoncardinal number
- noun is fichecardinal number
Italian ventuno
- ventunocardinal number
Japanese 二十一
- 二十一 (nijūichi)cardinal number
Korean 스물하나, 이십일
- 스물하나 (seumulhana)cardinal number
- 이십일 (isibil)cardinal number
Latin viginti unus
- viginti unuscardinal number
Latvian divdesmit viens
- divdesmit vienscardinal number
Malay dua puluh satu, selikur
- dua puluh satucardinal number
- selikurcardinal number
- satu likurcardinal number
Māori rua tekau mā tahi, rua ngahuru mā tahi
- rua tekau mā tahicardinal number
- rua ngahuru mā tahicardinal number
Norwegian Bokmål tjueen, tjueén
- tjueencardinal number
- tjueéncardinal number
Persian بیست و یک
- بیست و یک (bist-o-yek)cardinal number
Polish dwadzieścia jeden
- dwadzieścia jedencardinal number
Portuguese vinte e um, vinte e um
- vinte e umcardinal number
- vinte e umblackjack card game
- vinte-e-umblackjack card game
Punjabi ਇੱਕੀ
- ਇੱਕੀ (ikkī)cardinal number
Romanian douăzeci și unu
- douăzeci și unucardinal number
Russian два́дцать оди́н
- два́дцать оди́н (dvádcatʹ odín)cardinal number
Spanish veintiuno
- veintiunocardinal number
Swedish tjugoett, tjugoen
- tjugoettcardinal number
- tjugoencardinal number
- tjugoettblackjack card game
Tagalog beynte uno, dalawmpu't isa
- beynte unocardinal number
- dalawmpu't isacardinal number
Tamil இருபத்தொன்று
- இருபத்தொன்று (irupattoṉṟu)cardinal number
Thai ยี่สิบเอ็ด
- ยี่สิบเอ็ด (yîi-sìp-èt)cardinal number
Turkish yirmi bir
- yirmi bircardinal number
Ukrainian два́дцять оди́н
- два́дцять оди́н (dvádcjatʹ odýn)cardinal number
Urdu اکیس
- اکیس (ikkīs)cardinal number
Vietnamese hai mươi mốt
- hai mươi mốtcardinal number
Welsh un ar hugain, dau ddeg un
- un ar hugaincardinal number
- dau ddeg uncardinal number
- trisaithcardinal number
Yiddish איין און צוואַנציק
- איין און צוואַנציק (eyn un tsvantsik)cardinal number
Cite this entry
twenty-one. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-one
“twenty-one.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-one. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “twenty-one,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twenty-one.
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