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twenty-first

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Adj.1.twenty-firsttwenty-first - coming next after the twentieth in position
21st
ordinal - being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh"
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twenty-first [ˈtwentɪfɜːst] N (= birthday) → veintiún cumpleaños m inv; (= party) → fiesta f del veintiún cumpleaños
twenty-first [ˌtwɛntɪˈfɜːst] n (Brit) (fam) (birthday) → il ventunesimo compleanno; (birthday party) I'm having my twenty-first on Saturday → sabato faccio una festa per il mio ventunesimo compleanno
twenty-first [ˌtwɛntɪˈfɜːst] n (Brit) (fam) (birthday) → il ventunesimo compleanno; (birthday party) I'm having my twenty-first on Saturday → sabato faccio una festa per il mio ventunesimo compleanno


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Miss Fairlie's twenty-first birthday was late in March.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Only this morning (May twenty-first, Eighteen hundred and fifty), came my lady's nephew, Mr.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
But it is a time of leisure on the farm-- that pause between hay- and corn-harvest, and so the farmers and labourers in Hayslope and Broxton thought the captain did well to come of age just then, when they could give their undivided minds to the flavour of the great cask of ale which had been brewed the autumn after "the heir" was born, and was to be tapped on his twenty-first birthday.
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