SEVENTY-FOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seventy-four mean? 

• SEVENTY-FOUR (adjective)
  The adjective SEVENTY-FOUR has 1 sense:

1. being four more than seventy

  Familiarity information: SEVENTY-FOUR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENTY-FOUR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being four more than seventy

Synonyms:

74; lxxiv; seventy-four

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Seventy-four below zero by spirit thermometer on the sled.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Knock-down for Wilson,” cried the referee, and the answering roar was like the broadside of a seventy-four.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The day may come when I shall write down all that I remember of the greatest battle ever fought upon salt water, and how my father’s gallant life was brought to an end as, with his paint rubbing against a French eighty-gun ship on one side and a Spanish seventy-four upon the other he stood eating an apple in the break of his poop.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)