Definition of seventy
seventies
1 : a number equal to seven times 10 — see number table
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
seventy
adjectiveseventy
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Examples of seventy in a Sentence
She is in her seventies.
Recent Examples of seventy from the Web
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Elamin was released after five hours and is quick to acknowledge that others weren’t so fortunate: Yassin Abdelrhman, a green card holder in his late seventies from Sudan, was reportedly held at JFK for 30 hours.
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The shah undoubtedly ran a repressive and undemocratic regime, but his vilification by human rights activists and the press in the seventies provided a new wave of revisionist historians with an easy foil.
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I was born in 1964, which is long enough ago for me to have formed a vague firsthand impression of suburban, middle-class seventies feminism.
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Then, in the late seventies, he and Tom Epperson, a neighbor who shared his dreams of bigger things, up and left, first for New York and then, when that didn't work out, Los Angeles.
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In the seventies, Irving Penn made clean, bright color-block pictures that would surely get thousands of Instagram likes today.
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Real Time's format is a throwback to a seventies talk show—with a monologue, an interview, a panel discussion, some jokes, and a closing argument—but here everything is done without the benefit of breath-catching commercial breaks.
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Separately, tens of millions of dollars passed through offshore companies registered to Sergey Roldugin, a cellist who befriended Putin in the seventies and who is the godfather of Putin’s eldest daughter, Maria.
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Mr. Feil, who died in 1999, had four children: Jeffrey, Marilyn and Carole, who are all in their seventies, and the late Judith Jaffe, who died about two years ago.
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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
SEVENTY Defined for English Language Learners
seventy
playDefinition of seventy for English Language Learners
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: the number 70
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seventies : the numbers ranging from 70 to 79
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: a set of years ending in digits ranging from 70 to 79
SEVENTY Defined for Kids
Definition of seventy for Students
: being seven times ten
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