I. ˈsevən]t]ē, -v ə m], ˈseb ə m], ]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
seventy years
— 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