Definitions for Seventy
ˈsɛv ən tisev·en·ty

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. seventy, 70, LXXadjective

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven

2. seventy, 70, lxxadjective

   being ten more than sixty

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Seventyadjective

   Seven times ten.

   Etymology: handseofontig , Saxon.

   Worthy Marcius,
   Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that
   Thou art thence banish’d, we would master all,
   From twelve to seventy. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   We call not that death immature, if a man lives till seventy. Taylor.

   The weight of seventy winters prest him down,
   He bent beneath the burthen of a crown. Dryd.

   In the Hebrew, there is a particle consisting but of one single letter, of which there are reckoned up seventy several significations. John Locke.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. seventy

   70 (seventy) is the natural number following 69 and preceding 71.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Seventyadjective

   seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine

2. Seventynoun

   the sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects

3. Seventynoun

   a symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx

4. Etymology: [AS. hund-seofontig. See Seven, and Ten, and cf. Seventeen, Sixty.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Seventy

   sev′n-ti, adj. and n. seven times ten.—adj. Sev′entieth, last of seventy: the ordinal of 70.—n. a seventieth part.—The Seventy, the Jewish sanhedrim: the disciples sent out in Luke x.: the authors of the Septuagint—often LXX. [A.S. seofontig—seofon, seven; Dut. zeventig, Ger. siebenzig.]

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Seventy' in Written Corpus Frequency: #454

How to pronounce Seventy?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Seventy in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Seventy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Seventy in a Sentence

1. Tony Spontana:

   Seventy-two hours notification means three days, at least, to go to the execution. It may be longer. In other words, there will be no execution less than 72 hours after notification.

2. Rory McIlroy:

   Seventy-two holes, playing with no pain, no swelling, nothing like that, then we knew that, 'OK, you're ready to go.' And if I hadn't have passed that test, I wouldn't have been here.

3. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

   Sixty to seventy thousand people in the camps in north Aleppo are moving towards Turkey. My mind is not now in London, but on our border - how to relocate these new people coming from Syria? three hundred thousand people living in Aleppo are ready to move towards Turkey.

4. Dan Corcoran:

   Seventy-one percent of the entire state of California drinks water that comes out of the Sierra Nevada, three-quarters of the people who live in our state should be concerned with how our headwaters are managed.

5. Donald Stratton:

   We got hit with the big bomb and that exploded like a million pounds of ammunition. The fireball went about sixty, seventy feet in the air, the explosion could have taken us away, but it didn't and thank God we made it across.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Seventy
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Seventy
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventy
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Seventy
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Seventy