seventy-four

[ sev-uhn-tee-fawr, -fohr ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
2. a symbol for this number, as 74 or LXXIV.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 74 in number.

Example Sentences

Seventy-four percent of Democrats and 70 percent of Independents agree.

From The Daily Beast

Two thousand and seventy-four immigrants arrived in the steerage at New York.

From Project Gutenberg

On a division the second reading was carried by a majority of three hundred and twenty-one against one hundred and seventy-four.

From Project Gutenberg

On a division the motion was lost by a majority of one hundred and ninety against one hundred and seventy-four.

From Project Gutenberg

Seventy-four, Sir; I have lived to see great calamities, both as regards others and myself.

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The game was up with the Wasp and her prize, for the new ship was the Poictiers, a great seventy-four ship-of-the-line.

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