TWENTY-FIRST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-first mean? 

• TWENTY-FIRST (adjective)
  The adjective TWENTY-FIRST has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the twentieth in position

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-FIRST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-FIRST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the twentieth in position

Synonyms:

21st; twenty-first

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

For the evening reading before prayers, he selected the twenty-first chapter of Revelation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Being now in her twenty-first year, Maria Bertram was beginning to think matrimony a duty; and as a marriage with Mr. Rushworth would give her the enjoyment of a larger income than her father's, as well as ensure her the house in town, which was now a prime object, it became, by the same rule of moral obligation, her evident duty to marry Mr. Rushworth if she could.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)