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sev·en·ty

(sĕv′ən-tē)

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. The temperature hovered in the seventies.

b. often Seventies The decade from 70 to 79 in a century.

[Middle English, from Old English -seofontig (in hundseofontig, the decade seventy, seventy); see septm̥ in Indo-European roots.]

sev′en·ty adj. & pron.

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seventy

(ˈsɛvəntɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. (Mathematics) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven. See also number¹

2. (Mathematics) a numeral, 70, LXX, etc, representing this number

3. (Mathematics) (plural) the numbers 70–79, esp the 70th to the 79th year of a person's life or of a particular century: She continued to work into her seventies.; temperatures in the high seventies.

4. (Mathematics) the amount or quantity that is seven times as big as ten

5. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 70 units

determiner

a. amounting to seventy: the seventy varieties of fabric.

b. (as pronoun): to invite seventy to the wedding.

[Old English seofentig]

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sev•en•ty

(ˈsɛv ən ti)

n., pl. -ties,
adj. n.

1. a cardinal number, 10 times 7.

2. a symbol for this number, as 70 or LXX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

4. seventies, the numbers from 70 through 79, as in referring to the years of a lifetime or of a century or to degrees of temperature.

adj.

5. amounting to 70 in number.

[1150–1200; Middle English; Old English seofontig. See seven, -ty¹]

sev′en•ti•eth, adj., n.

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Noun	1.	seventy - the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven 70, LXX large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten
Adj.	1.	seventy - being ten more than sixty 70, lxx cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"

Translations

الرَّقم 70السَّبْعونسبعونسَبْعُونعُمْر السَّبْعين

setanta

sedmdesátsedmdesát letsedmdesátiletý

halvfjerdshalvfjerds århalvfjerds år gammel

Siebzig

εβδομήντα

sepdek

setenta

seitsemänkymmentä

soixante-dix septante

sedamdeset

hetven

sjötíusjötíu ára

settanta

七十

septuaginta

aštuntas dešimtmetisseptyniasdešimtseptyniasdešimtasseptyniasdešimtiesseptyniasdešimties metų

septiņdesmitseptiņdesmit gadu vecumsseptiņdesmitgadīgs

şaptezeci

sedemdesiatsedemdesiat rokov

sedemdesetsedemdeseta leta

sjuttio

sabini

เจ็ดสิบ

yetmişyetmiş yaşıyetmiş yaşında

bảy mươi

七十七十个的七十岁七十岁的

seventy

[ˈsevntɪ]

A. ADJ → setenta

B. N → setenta m
see fifty for usage

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seventy

[ˈsɛv^ənti] num → soixante-dix
He's seventy → Il a soixante-dix ans.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

seventy

adj → siebzig

n → Siebzig f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

seventy

[ˈsɛvntɪ] adj & n → settanta (m) inv
for usage see fifty

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

seventy

(ˈsevnti) noun

1. the number or figure 70.

2. the age of 70.

adjective

1. 70 in number.

2. aged 70.

seventy-

having seventy. a seventy-year lease.

ˈseventies noun plural

1. the period of time between a person's seventieth and eightieth birthdays.

2. the range of temperatures between seventy and eighty degrees.

3. the period of time between the seventieth and eightieth years of a century.

ˈseventieth noun

1. one of seventy equal parts.

2. (also adjective) (the) last of seventy (people, things etc); (the) next after the sixty-ninth.

ˈseventy-year-old noun

a person or animal that is seventy years old.

adjective

(of a person, animal or thing) that is seventy years old.

seventy

→ سَبْعُون sedmdesát halvfjerds siebzig εβδομήντα setenta seitsemänkymmentä soixante-dix sedamdeset settanta 七十 70 zeventig sytti siedemdziesiąt setenta семьдесят sjuttio เจ็ดสิบ yetmiş bảy mươi 七十

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