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SEVENTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("seventy" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Derivation:
seventy (being ten more than sixty)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than sixty
Synonyms:
70; lxx; seventy
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Derivation:
seventy (the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven)
Context examples:
At a calculation of a two-mile drift per hour, during the seventy and odd hours of the storm, we had been driven at least one hundred and fifty miles to the north-east.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Neither had I so soon learned the gratitude of courtiers, to persuade myself, that his majesty’s present seventies acquitted me of all past obligations.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Millcote, —shire; I brushed up my recollections of the map of England, yes, I saw it; both the shire and the town. —shire was seventy miles nearer London than the remote county where I now resided: that was a recommendation to me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Were your friends, the Allens, still in Bath, you might go to them with comparative ease; a few hours would take you there; but a journey of seventy miles, to be taken post by you, at your age, alone, unattended!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He was returning to Mansfield with spirits ready to feed on melancholy remembrances, and tender associations, when her own fair self was before him, leaning on her brother's arm, and he found himself receiving a welcome, unquestionably friendly, from the woman whom, two moments before, he had been thinking of as seventy miles off, and as farther, much farther, from him in inclination than any distance could express.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Only a fool would travel at such a temperature. If it isn't eighty below, it's because it's seventy- nine."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was seventy miles, and he could ride it on Sunday and be ready for work Monday morning.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I had been taking three pounds a week at Coxon’s, and I had saved about seventy of them, but I soon worked my way through that and out at the other end.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mingled with these were a few scattered pines, some fifty, some nearer seventy, feet high.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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