seventy-five
Americannoun
-
a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
-
a symbol for this number, as 75 or LXXV.
-
a set of this many persons or things.
-
Military.
-
a gun with a 75-millimeter caliber.
-
the field gun of that caliber used in the French and U.S. armies in World War I.
-
adjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
One hundred seventy-five cookie jars that belonged to Andy Warhol.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
"As an older female, Shanidar Z would have been a repository of knowledge for her group, and here we are seventy-five thousand years later, learning from her still," Pomeroy said.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
Even half-gone, plants outweigh us seventy-five hundred to one.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 7, 2023
He could purchase a small bag of ice for seventy-five cents.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2021
When he lifted the lid, he expected to find a half-decent, unpopular design that had been marked seventy-five percent off.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
