twenty-first

twenty-first

English

English ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : twenty-one     Ordinal : twenty-first

Adjective

twenty-first (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number twenty-one.

Abbreviations

21st, 21^st, XXI

Translations

the ordinal form of the number twenty-one

Afrikaans: een-en-twintigste (af) Catalan: vint-i-unè (ca) m Crimean Tatar: yigirmi birinci Dutch: eenentwintigste (nl) Esperanto: dudek-unua Finnish: kahdeskymmenesensimmäinen (fi) French: vingt-et-unième (abbreviation 21ème) Georgian: ოცდამეერთე (ocdameerte) German: einundzwanzigste (de)

Hungarian: huszonegyedik (hu) Italian: ventunesimo (it) m, ventunesima f (abbreviations 21º m, 21ª f) Macedonian: дваесет и први (dvaeset i prvi) Navajo: naadįįłaʼ góneʼ Portuguese: vigésimo primeiro m Romanian: al douăzeci și unulea m, a douăzeci și una f Russian: два́дцать пе́рвый (dvádcatʹ pérvyj) Spanish: vigesimoprimero (es), vigésimo primero Turkish: yirmi birinci (abbreviation 21'inci, 21.)

Noun

twenty-first (plural twenty-firsts)

1. The person or thing in the twenty-first position.
2. One of twenty-one equal parts of a whole, usually written ${\\displaystyle \\textstyle {\\frac {1}{21}}}$.
3. (informal) A party to celebrate a twenty-first birthday.

Synonyms

• (nonstandard, humorous) twenty-oneth

Translations

ordinal

Catalan: vint-i-unè (ca) m Finnish: kahdeskymmenesensimmäinen (fi) French: vingt-et-unième (fr) m or f

Italian: ventunesimo (it) m, ventunesima f Spanish: vigésimo primero Turkish: yirmi birinci

portion of a whole

Catalan: vint-i-unè (ca) m Finnish: kahdeskymmenesyhdesosa French: vingt-et-unième (fr) m

Georgian: ოცდამეერთედი (ocdameertedi) Italian: ventunesimo (it) m Spanish: veintiunavo (es)

See also

• previous: twentieth, next: twenty-second