SEVENTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seventy mean? 

• SEVENTY (noun)
  The noun SEVENTY has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven

  Familiarity information: SEVENTY used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. being ten more than sixty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

70; LXX; seventy

Hypernyms ("seventy" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Derivation:

seventy (being ten more than sixty)

• SEVENTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than sixty

Synonyms:

70; lxx; seventy

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 

“We have a clear run here of seventy minutes,” Holmes remarked.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was seventy miles, and the same distance back on Sunday afternoon would leave him anything but rested for the second week's work.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But, my good young friend, what's seventy pounds a year?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I couldn't help loving you if you were seventy!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Seventy percent of forest lands are within a half-mile of forest edges.

(Shrinking habitats have adverse effects on world ecosystems, NSF)

It is a hard journey. December is most gone. The days are short. It is very cold. One morning it is seventy below zero.

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

When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nine-and-seventy Alleyne counted of these dark figures flitting across the line of the moonlight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the 12th of June, 1745, for instance, a sum of seventy pounds had plainly become due to someone, and there was nothing but six crosses to explain the cause.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Across Marsh, Tagish, and Bennett (seventy miles of lakes), they flew so fast that the man whose turn it was to run towed behind the sled at the end of a rope.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)