SEVENTY


Meaning of SEVENTY in English

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

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.