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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

  • Released a year early, the prematurely titled 70th Anniversary Edition of

    All articles at Blogcritics 2009

  • It is also the year when the world recalls the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of WWII.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • Yet I see billboards around town, touting the "70th" anniversary of Pinoke.

    Two Rivals, Rivaling Again Steve Hulett 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • But it still ranked 70th in the world, behind Warsaw, Manila and Glasgow.

    Istanbul Woos Financiers Marc Champion 2010

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