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seventy
CIDE DICTIONARY
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]
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.
--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
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seventy
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