seventy
a cardinal number, 10 times 7.
a symbol for this number, as 70 or LXX.
a set of this many persons or things.
seventies, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like from 70 through 79, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature: They live in the Seventies. His uncle is in his early seventies. It was in the seventies yesterday.
the Seventy, the body of scholars who produced the Septuagint.
amounting to 70 in number.
Origin of seventy
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How to use seventy in a sentence
So we might do that version of Jack or, you know, we might even do a current, you know, um, Jack as he was, when he was in his seventies as well.
How AI is helping birth digital humans that look and sound just like us | Anthony Green | September 29, 2022 | MIT Technology Reviewseventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.
Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTseventy percent of Hispanic Americans reported being very or somewhat concerned about climate change, and 57 percent of blacks.
seventy three percent of students at David Douglas High School in Portland, Oregon are low-income.
seventy-five percent of the collection was done by the time he got there.
Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta, American Great, Dead at 82 | Tim Teeman | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
Among the Sioux | R. J. CreswellAfter about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIn 1848 there were only seven priests in Birmingham, and but seventy in the whole diocese.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellHe remained with the Midland until 1897, when he retired on superannuation at the age of seventy-six.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHe is small, alert, brimful of jokes and of years; seventy they say, but he neither looks it nor acts it.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for seventy
/ (ˈsɛvəntɪ) /
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven: See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 70, LXX, etc, representing this number
(plural) the numbers 70–79, esp the 70th to the 79th year of a person's life or of a particular century
the amount or quantity that is seven times as big as ten
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 70 units
amounting to seventy: the seventy varieties of fabric
(as pronoun): to invite seventy to the wedding
Origin of seventy
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