seventy-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 71 or LXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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A day after turning seventy-one, Cher dominated headlines from the 2017 Billboard Music Awards by wearing a nearly identical, Mackie-designed version of the outfit while performing “If I Could Turn Back Time.”
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
Seven hundred and seventy-one distance learning students at Long Beach City College responded to surveys in the 2010–11 academic year.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
Gilberto Perez, who died in 2015, at the age of seventy-one, was one of the great scholars and theorists of the cinema.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 17, 2020
“Poppa Neutrino planned to sail across the Pacific by himself, something that had been accomplished on a raft only once, by William Willis, in 1964, when Willis was seventy-one years old.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2018
It was the dream I cherished when I entered prison at the age of forty-four, but I was no longer a young man, I was seventy-one, and I could not afford to waste any time.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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