Seventy
['sev(ə)ntɪ] or ['sɛvnti]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven.
(adj.) being ten more than sixty .
Inputed by Bernard--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.
(n.) The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
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Definition
adj. and n. seven times ten.—adj. Sev′entieth last of seventy: the ordinal of 70.—n. a seventieth part.—The Seventy the Jewish sanhedrim: the disciples sent out in Luke x.: the authors of the Septuagint—often LXX.
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Examples
- I am nearly seventy, Mr. Lydgate, and I go upon experience. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It cannot have been upward of three hundred and seventy or eighty days. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- We can give Mr. Copperfield seventy-two, sir, if it would be preferred. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It has seventy subscribers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am now somewhere between seventy and eighty years of age--never mind exactly where! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I suppose we have about a hundred and seventy pounds a year of our own. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It's only a hundred-and-seventy, and the deuce is in it if we can't raise that. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Nearly seventy, I believe, answered Meg, counting stitches to hide the merriment in her eyes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Bell, aged twenty-eight, explained his new idea to Henry, then aged seventy-eight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I believe that the engine driving the four Z generators at the power-house indicated as high as seventy horse-power at the time the locomotive was actually in service. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The average was from twenty to seventy-five feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The heat-treating department contains about seventy-five large furnaces, which consume from 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel oil per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He and seventy others had fled out from a gladiatorial farm at Capua. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Though turned seventy, I possess an active memory, and legs to correspond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- During the seventies and eighties a stormy controversy raged throughout the civilized world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Edison’s, in truth, was the master mind, the forming spirit of all the advances made in the seventies and eighties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Back in the seventies an English botanist, Wickham by name, smuggled many Hevea seeds out of Brazil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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