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
Even now, at seventy-one, he teaches five classes a semester at a local university.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 25, 2019
She is seventy-one, and has spent forty years studying political speeches, ads, and debates.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018
He wormed his ship through the ice pack to reach seventy-one degrees south latitude, and then turned north again without ever seeing the land.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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