seventy

[sev-uhn-tee]

noun

plural

seventies 

1. a cardinal number, 10 times 7.

2. a symbol for this number, as 70 or LXX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

4. 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.

5. the Seventy, the body of scholars who produced the Septuagint.

adjective

1. amounting to 70 in number.

seventy

/ ˈsɛvəntɪ /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven See also number

2. a numeral, 70, LXX, etc, representing this number

3. (plural) the numbers 70–79, esp the 70th to the 79th year of a person's life or of a particular century

4. the amount or quantity that is seven times as big as ten

5. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 70 units

determiner

1. 1. amounting to seventy

      the seventy varieties of fabric

   2. ( as pronoun )

      to invite seventy to the wedding

Word History and Origins

Origin of seventy¹

1150–1200; Middle English; Old English seofontig. See seven, -ty ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of seventy¹

Old English seofentig

Example Sentences

Autumn’s fashion sense tends to manifest in time-period themes, like seventies disco or nineties hip-hop.

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“The answer to how many Englands would fit inside Russia,” she said at last, “is seventy, more or less.”

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Girls begin their training at around the age of eleven, taught primarily by haenyeo who are over eighty years old and have been diving for some seventy years.

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Superintendent Yoshida and a team of about seventy supervisors stayed behind to keep fighting.

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I counted off seventy paces as I walked the entire length.

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