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Definition of Twenty-first
1. Adjective. Coming next after the twentieth in position.
Definition of Twenty-first
1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number twenty-one. ¹
2. Noun. The person or thing in the twenty-first position. ¹
3. Noun. One of twenty-one equal parts of a whole, usually written . ¹
4. Noun. (informal) The twenty-first birthday. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty-first
Literary usage of Twenty-first
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"On the twenty-first the rebel army advanced in three columns by Smithfield, Summit
Point, and Berryville on our army, concentrated about Charlestown, ..."
2. The New York Red Book (1897)
"The forty-eighth election district of the twenty-first assembly district; eighteenth
to twentieth election districts of the twenty-third assembly district; ..."
3. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"... on which day it adjourned to meet on Thursday, the twenty-first day of November,
AD ; met on the said twenty-first day of November, and ended the second ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1889)
"THE twenty-first Annual General Meeting was held in the Library of the Institute,
... The Council, in presenting the twenty-first Annual Report, ..."
5. Annual Report (1902)
"... Vermont to Budlong Ave 4 1405 twenty-first St., at Compton Ave. and West 4
188 twenty-first St., at Long Beach Ave. and East 4 940 Twenty-second St., ..."
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