Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective coming next after the sixty-ninth in a series.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of seventy in counting order
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Examples
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Released a year early, the prematurely titled 70th Anniversary Edition of
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It is also the year when the world recalls the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of WWII.
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First of all - Mom I hope your 70th was the absolute best if anyone on Earth deserves a day fit for a queen it's you!
Quasi-Mom 2009
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Benedict XVI today recalled the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the pogrom carried out against Jewish citizens, synagogues, offices, neighborhoods, from November 9-10, 1938, which "began the violent persecution that concluded with the Holocaust."
Clerical Whispers 2008
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Yet I see billboards around town, touting the "70th" anniversary of Pinoke.
Two Rivals, Rivaling Again Steve Hulett 2009
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Of this 70 there will then remain the 70th, that is to say, the 7 last years of which he will speak next.) "The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Pens��es 1623-1662 1944
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Of this 70 there will then remain the 70th, that is to say, the 7 last years of which he will speak next.) "The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Pascal's Pensées Blaise Pascal 1642
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What would have been Zappa's 70th birthday is celebrated in a Roundhouse season next month – tonight there's a screening of the Zappa Plays Zappa concert, in which Dweezil Zappa plays his father's material.
The weekend's TV highlights Martin Skegg 2010
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The view from the terrace is of the ornate columns of the upper stories of a building on West 70th Street built in 1926 for the Knights of Pythias.
Sanborn Seeks Home High Note Josh Barbanel 2010
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But it still ranked 70th in the world, behind Warsaw, Manila and Glasgow.
Istanbul Woos Financiers Marc Champion 2010
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