seventy-first

[ sev-uh n-tee-furst ]

/ ˈsɛv ən tiˈfɜrst /

next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.

being one of 71 equal parts.

a seventy-first part, especially of one (1/71).

the seventy-first member of a series.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

One page of his seventy-first chapter contains these four misstatements: 1.
Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume I (of 3)|James Dennistoun
We celebrated his seventy-first birthday by playing billiards all day.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
Eighteen months after this strange scene Elizabeth died, in her seventy-first year.
A History of England|Charles Oman
The seventy-first essay of the treatise of Development is a good example of the mystic or philosophical side of Harveys character.
William Harvey|D'Arcy Powers

So long ago as 1881 was published his sonnet to Tennyson on his seventy-first birthday.
Theodore Watts-Dunton|James Douglas