Seventy

• POS: Definite Article, Noun
• HYPHEN: sev=en=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

Seventy, a. [AS. hund-seofontig. See Seven, and Ten, and cf. Seventeen, Sixty.].

 Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.  [1913 Webster]

Seventy, n. 

•  The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.  [1913 Webster]
•  A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.  [1913 Webster]

The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Seventy, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 the product of seven and ten.
2 a symbol for this (70, lxx, LXX).
3 (in pl.) the numbers from
70 to 79, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life.
--adj. that amount to seventy.

Idiom

seventy-first, -second , etc. the ordinal numbers between seventieth and eightieth. seventy-one, -two , etc. the cardinal numbers between seventy and eighty.

Derivative

seventieth adj. & n. seventyfold adj. & adv.

Etymology

OE -seofontig

ROGET THESAURUS

Seventy

Five

N five, five, cinque, quint, quincux, six, half-a- dozen, half dozen, seven, eight, nine, three times three, dicker, ten, decade, eleven, twelve, dozen, thirteen, long dozen, baker's dozen, quintuplet, twenty, score, twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen, twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred, forty, two score, fifty, half a hundred, sixty, three score, seventy, three score and ten, eighty, four score, ninety, fourscore and ten, sestiad, hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century, hundredweight, cwt, one hundred and forty-four, gross, thousand, chiliad, millennium, thousand years, grand, myriad, ten thousand, ban, man, ten thousand years, banzai, lac, one hundred thousand, plum, million, thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion, five, quinary, quintuple, fifth, senary, sextuple, sixth, seventh, septuple, octuple, eighth, ninefold, ninth, tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth, eleventh, duodenary, duodenal, twelfth, in one's 'teens, thirteenth, vicesimal, vigesimal, twentieth, twenty-fourth, vicenary, vicennial, centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial, secular, hundredth, thousandth.