seventy
pronunciation
How to pronounce seventy in British English:
UK [ˈsevnti]
How to pronounce seventy in American English:
US [ˈsevnti]
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- Noun:
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven
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- Adjective:
- being ten more than sixty
Word Origin
- seventy
- Old English (hund)seofontig, from seofon (see seven) + -tig (see -ty (1)). Similar formation in Old Frisian soventich, Middle Dutch seventich, Old Norse sjau tiger.
Example
- 1. These are seventy dollars and those are thirty dollars .
- 2. Ostrovsky departed from us already seventy whole years .
- 3. At seventy , the grandmother still dominated all these people .
- 4. The seven women in the study were ages sixty-five to seventy .
- 5. He had forty sons and thirty grandsons , who rode on seventy donkeys .