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seventieth
[ sev-uhn-tee-ith ]
adjective
- next after the sixty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 70.
- being one of 70 equal parts.
noun
- a seventieth part, especially of one (1/70).
- the seventieth member of a series.
ˈseventieth
/ ˈsɛvəntɪɪθ /
adjective
- usually prenominal
- being the ordinal number of seventy in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc: often written 70th
- ( as noun )
the seventieth in line
noun
- one of 70 approximately equal parts of something
- ( as modifier )
a seventieth part
- the fraction equal to one divided by 70 ( 1 70 )
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Example Sentences
It would seem, at best, an uneasy fit: Paul Newman and his seventieth birthday, this month.
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On his seventieth birthday Mr. Bright justified what he called the policy of 1846.
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Sir Peregrine himself at this time was an old man, having passed his seventieth year.
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A number of more or less notable things happened in this, Mark Twain's seventieth year.
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His wife was a writer of ability and after reaching her seventieth year wrote a book of poems.
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In other places he says that Mrs. Thrale's thirty-fifth year coincided with Johnson's seventieth.
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