seventy-first

[ sev-uhn-tee-furst ]

adjective

1. next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
2. being one of 71 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventy-first part, especially of one (1/71).
2. the seventy-first member of a series.

Example Sentences

This tragedy took place in the year 1749—strange to say, in the seventy-first year of Renata's age.

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A little later, in his seventy-first year, Confucius himself passed away, 479 b.c.

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So long ago as 1881 was published his sonnet to Tennyson on his seventy-first birthday.

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At the Seventy-first Armory, a girl for every sailor of the fleet?

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David's vital energy began to decrease before he had attained his seventy-first year.

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