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- [sev-uh n-tee]
- /ˈsɛv ən ti/
- /ˈsevnti/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [sev-uh n-tee]
- /ˈsɛv ən ti/
Definitions of seventy word
- noun plural seventy a cardinal number, 10 times 7. 1
- noun plural seventy a symbol for this number, as 70 or LXX. 1
- noun plural seventy a set of this many persons or things. 1
- noun plural seventy 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. 1
- noun plural seventy the Seventy, the body of scholars who produced the Septuagint. 1
- adjective seventy amounting to 70 in number. 1
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Origin of seventy
First appearance:
before 1150 One of the 7% oldest English words
1150-1200; Middle English; Old English seofontig. See seven, -ty1
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Parts of speech for Seventy
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
seventy popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
seventy usage trend in Literature
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