70
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Definition
Adjective:
- Being ten more than sixty; equal to seven times ten. It is a numerical value representing the quantity that is one more than sixty-nine and one less than seventy-one.
Noun:
- The cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven. It is the name for the numerical symbol 70.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- She has collected 70 different stamps for her project.
- The temperature reached 70 degrees Fahrenheit today.
Noun:
- The number written on the door was 70.
- Seventy is a multiple of both five and seven.
Advanced Usage
- "In one's seventies": Referring to an age between 70 and 79 years old.
- My grandfather is in his seventies and still very active.
- "The seventies": Referring to the decade from 1970 to 1979.
- Disco music was very popular in the seventies.
Variants and Related Words
- Seventieth (adj., n.): Constituting number seventy in a sequence; the ordinal form.
- This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the event.
- LXX: The Roman numeral for seventy.
- The manuscript was dated LXX, meaning 70.
Synonyms
- Three score and ten: An archaic or literary term for seventy.
- He lived to the age of three score and ten.
- Seventy: The word form of the number.
Related Phrases
- Seventy times seven: A phrase from the Bible (Matthew 18:22) meaning a very large, unlimited number of times, often used to imply limitless forgiveness.
- You should forgive others not just seven times, but seventy times seven.
Adjective
- being ten more than sixty
Noun
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven