What does Seventy mean?

Definitions for Seventy
ˈsɛv ən tisev·en·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  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 Dictionary

  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.

Wikipedia

  1. seventy

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

ChatGPT

  1. seventy

    Seventy is a numerical value that is represented by the number 70. It is an even number that falls between sixty-nine and seventy-one, and is often used in the context of age, quantity, or other forms of measurement. In Roman numeral, it is denoted as LXX.

Webster Dictionary

  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 Dictionary

  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. seofontigseofon, seven; Dut. zeventig, Ger. siebenzig.]

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

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

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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. Richard DeVos:

    If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

  2. Ted Cruz:

    Seventy percent of Republicans don't believe Donald Trump is the right candidate to go head-to-head with Hillary Clinton and beat her in November, the only way to beat Trump is with a strong, proven, constitutional conservative.

  3. Jerry Della Femina:

    I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

  4. Ron DeSantis:

    For seventy years, these four men have had their history wrongly written for crimes they did not commit. As I have said before, while that is a long time to wait, it is never too late to do the right thing, i believe the rule of law is society's sacred bond. When it is trampled, we all suffer. For the Groveland Four, the truth was buried. The Perpetrators celebrated. But justice has cried out from that day until this.

  5. Richard M. DeVos:

    If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"

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