I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective
: being one more than 73 in number
seventy-four years
— see number table
II. pronoun, plural in construction
: 74 countable persons or things not specified but under consideration and being enumerated
seventy-four are here
seventy-four were found
III. noun
1. : four and 70 : two times 37
2.
a. : 74 units or objects
a total of seventy-four
b. : a group or set of 74
3. : the numerable quantity symbolized by the arabic numerals 74
4. : the 74th in a set or series
5. : an old-time warship rated as carrying 74 guns
6. : a highly regarded southern African sparid food fish ( Polysteganus undulosus ) having a rosy red color above shading to white below with several wavy longitudinal blue streaks along the sides