Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 7 × 10.
- noun A decade or the numbers from 70 to 79.
- noun The decade from 70 to 79 in a century.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine: a cardinal numeral.
- noun The number which is made up of seven times ten.
- noun A symbol representing this number, as 70, or LXX, or lxx.
- noun to the Jewish sanhedrim;
- noun to the body of disciples mentioned in Luke x. as appointed by Christ to preach the gospel and heal the sick;
- noun to the body of scholars who, according to tradition, were the authors of the Septuagint: so called from their number seventy-two (see
Septuagint ); - noun to certain officials in the Mormon Church whose duty it is, under the direction of the Twelve Apostles, “to travel into all the world and preach the Gospel and administer its ordinances” (Mormon Catechism).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
- noun A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
- noun the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See
Septuagint . - adjective Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cardinal number occurring after
sixty-nine and beforeseventy-one , represented in Roman numerals asLXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven
- adjective being ten more than sixty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Five hundred cities in seventy-five countries are participating.
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"Two to one you don't -- not in seventy-five days."
Chapter III 2010
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In that time, he was in seventy movies and television series, including the long running 1970′s cop drama, “The Streets of San Francisco”.
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Karl Malden | myFiveBest 2009
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Latuya Bay called loudest, so that the summer of 1898 found him and his wife threading the mazes of the broken coast-line in seventy-foot Siwash canoes.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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Moses said, “As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years, yet their pride is but labour and sorrow; for soon it is gone and we fly away” (Ps. 90: 10).
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Five hundred cities in seventy-five countries are participating.
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“We will know in seventy years, eleven months two days and one hour, your time.”
A Test Of Faith: Julian Gilmour: Reader Scifi Fiction | SciFi UK Review 2008
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Looks like the dastardly United Auto Workers has somehow conspired to cause Toyota to post its first loss in seventy years.
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Of course, at this point I'd be happy to be able to type up a first paragraph in seventy-two hours, but I'm sure that there are enough people out there sending in their entry fee to make this a viable contest.
August 2006 2006
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Within seventy-two hours of touching down in Croatia, and despite taking every precaution, I was sunburned to stupidity, and had a sun-stroke episode that required twelve hours in bed to recover from.
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