seventy

noun sev·en·ty \ ˈse-vən-tē , ˈse-bᵊm- , -dē \

|Updated on: 18 Jun 2018

Examples: seventy in a Sentence

Definition of seventy

plural seventies

1 : a number equal to seven times 10 — see Table of Numbers

2 seventies plural : the numbers 70 to 79; specifically : the years 70 to 79 in a lifetime or century

3 capitalized : a Mormon elder ordained for missionary work under the apostles

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seventieth

play \ˈse-vən-tē-əth, ˈse-bᵊm-, -dē-\ adjective or noun

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seventy

adjective

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seventy

pronoun, plural in construction

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Examples of seventy in a Sentence

She is in her seventies.

Recent Examples of seventy from the Web

He was shown allowing the older American — Trump, in his seventies, is more than twice Kim’s age — to lean in toward him to shake hands, or give a thumbs up, then walking a few steps ahead to a working lunch.

— Washington Post, "After summit, North Korea shows Trump in new light," 14 June 2018
An elderly couple—in their seventies according to The Sun—took the hit the hardest, and were nearly pulled out into the surf before being rescued by others at the scene.

— eric limer, Popular Mechanics, "Here's Why You Don't Go Down to the Beach During a Storm," 10 Feb. 2016
So the men, all in their fifties, sixties, and seventies, simply unload their cargo and begin hauling heavy sacks on foot more than a half mile to the launch point.

— ivan watson, jungeun kim, stella ko and jo shelley, CNN, "Messages in bottles sent across the sea to North Korea," 17 May 2018
Think about Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham in the late seventies and early eighties.

— rachel aviv, The New Yorker, "A Sidelined Wall Street Legend Bets on Bitcoin," 10 Apr. 2018
Several ruggedly handsome men played the part in the seventies and eighties in the ads.

— peter king, SI.com, "Six Ways To Draft Day: How First Half-Dozen Picks May Go," 15 Apr. 2018
Part portrait of a complex family, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice.

— verne kopytoff, Fortune, "Steve Jobs' Daughter Is Writing a Memoir About Their Complicated Relationship," 16 Mar. 2018
Lately, his podcast Atlanta Monster, about the Atlanta child murders of the late seventies and early eighties, has soared to the top of the iTunes podcast charts.

— susannah hutcheson, USA TODAY, "How I became a podcast creator: Payne Lindsey's hit series leads to TV deal," 20 Mar. 2018
Until very recently, Bob Rogers, a retired coal miner in his seventies, thought his party was dead.

— nash jenkins / washington county, Time, "Special Election Results in Trump County Give Democrats Hope," 15 Mar. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of seventy

seventy, adjective, from Middle English, from Old English seofontig, short for hundseofontig, from hundseofontig, noun, group of seventy, from hund hundred + seofon seven + -tig group of ten; akin to Old English tīen ten

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First Known Use: 13th century

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