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sev·en·ty
I. \ˈsevən]t]ē, -vəm], ˈsebəm], ]d], ]i\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English seofontig, short for hundseofontig, from hundseofontig, n., group of 70, from hund 100 + seofon seven + -tig group of ten — more at hundred, seven, eighty
: being one more than 69 in number
< seventyyears >
— see number table
II. pronoun, plural in construction
Etymology: Middle English, from seventy, adjective
: 70 countable persons or things not specified but under consideration and being enumerated
< seventy are here >
< seventy were found >
III. noun
(-es)
1. : seven tens : twice 35 : five times 14
2.
a. : 70 units or objects
< a total of seventy >
b. : a group or set of 70
3. : the numerable quantity symbolized by the arabic numerals 70
4. : the 70th in a set or series
5. : something having as an essential feature 70 units or members
6.
a. usually capitalized : a group of the traveling elders of the Mormon church who are especially commissioned by ordination for missionary service and serve under the direction of the apostles
b. : a member of this group
< appointed a Seventy >
7. seventies plural
a. : the numbers 70 to 79 inclusive
< a golf score in the seventies >
< all his grades in that subject are in the seventies >
b. : the members of a series or set of successive numbers that end in 70 to 79 inclusive
< the seventies of the preceding century >
< lives in the seventies in the next block >
c. : the portion of a continuum lying between 70 and 80 on a scale of measurement or segmentation
< temperatures in the high seventies tomorrow >
< a man in his seventies >
< overcoats selling in the seventies > |