seventy-one

Thân thiện

A child counts seventy-one colorful marbles on the floor.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Being one more than seventy: The cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and one; 71.

Usage

• As a determiner or adjective: Used to describe a quantity of exactly seventy-one items, years, units, etc.
• Position in a sequence: Can denote the ordinal position "seventy-first" when context is clear, though the primary adjectival form is cardinal.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The committee is composed of seventy-one members.
  • She lived to be seventy-one years old.
  • The final score was seventy-one to sixty.

Advanced Usage

• In mathematics and science: Used as a precise numerical value.
  • The atomic number of lutetium is seventy-one.
• In historical or cultural contexts: Often used to mark specific years or ages.
  • The Declaration of Independence was signed in seventy-one? No, that's incorrect; it was 1776. (Example of correcting a numerical mistake)

Variants and Related Words

• 71: The Arabic numeral representation.
• LXXI: The Roman numeral representation.
• Seventy-first (71st): The ordinal number form, meaning "constituting number seventy-one in a sequence."
  • He finished in seventy-first place.

Synonyms

• 71: The numeric symbol.
• LXXI: The Roman numeral equivalent.

Notes on Usage

• Hyphenation: The compound adjective "seventy-one" is typically hyphenated when it precedes a noun (e.g., seventy-one steps) but may not be when it follows a linking verb (e.g., – though hyphenation is often retained for clarity).
• "A" vs. "One": Unlike smaller numbers, it is not common to say "a seventy-one" to mean "one instance of seventy-one." The full number is used.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. being one more than seventy

Từ đồng nghĩa

• 71
• lxxi