twenty-first

noun 3adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

illiterate

VERB + TWENTY-FIRST

beginning, came, made

TWENTY-FIRST + NOUN

alcohol, amendment, august, century, day, june, october, year

PREP.

in, in, on, than

adj

The ordinal form of the number twenty-one.

noun

The person or thing in the twenty-first position.

One of twenty-one equal parts of a whole, usually written ¹⁄₂₁.

A party to celebrate a twenty-first birthday.

The twenty-first century starts in just a few years.

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Esperanto is the language of the twenty-first century.

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There were many technological advances at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

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Today is Saturday, the twenty-first of October.

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At three o’clock on the morning of the twenty-first of June, we were awakened and notified that the Azores islands were in sight.

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i Register

In some senses, twenty-first is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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