The meaning of SEVENTY is a number equal to seven times 10. How to use seventy in a sentence.
SEVENTY definition: a cardinal number, 10 times 7. See examples of seventy used in a sentence.
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Define seventy. seventy synonyms, seventy pronunciation, seventy translation, English dictionary definition of seventy. n. 1. The cardinal number equal to 7 × 10. 2. seventies a. A decade or the numbers from 70 to 79: They became grandparents in their seventies.
Seventy is the number 70. Seventy people were killed. When you talk about the seventies, you are referring to numbers between 70 and 79. For example, if you are in your seventies, you are aged between 70 and 79. If the temperature is in the seventies, it is between 70 and 79.
At seventy, he still retains his impish grin. They nicked him for driving at seventy in a fifty speed limit area. At seventy she was surprisingly broadminded.
From Middle English seventy, sevynty, from Old English hundseofontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą (“seventy”), equivalent to seven + -ty.
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.
seventies, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like from 70 through 79, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature: They live in the Seventies. His uncle is in his early seventies. It was in the seventies yesterday.