seventy
seventy Lexical Profile
seventy Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Amounting to one more than sixty-nine, or seven times ten; ten more than sixty.
"The historic library houses over seventy rare manuscripts from the medieval period."
• noun
The cardinal number equivalent to the product of seven and ten; one more than sixty-nine, or the symbol representing this number (70 or LXX).
"Seventy is divisible by both seven and ten."
The numbers from seventy to seventy-nine, especially the years of a century or of a person's life, or degrees on a temperature scale (used in the plural).
"My grandfather remained an avid hiker well into his seventies."
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'hundseofontig', formed from the base of 'seofon' (seven) and '-tig' (a group of ten), with the initial element 'hund-' (ten or a hundred) lost in Middle English.
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