Seventieth definition

sĕvən-tē-ĭth
The ordinal number matching the number 70 in a series.
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One of 70 equal parts.
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Preceded by sixty-nine others in a series; 70th.
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Designating any of the seventy equal parts of something.
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The one following the sixty-ninth.
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Any of the seventy equal parts of something;170
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In the seventieth place, rank, group, etc.
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The ordinal form of the number seventy.
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The person or thing in the seventieth position.

All the septuagenarians remembered their seventieths fondly.

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One of seventy equal parts of a whole.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
seventieth
Plural:
seventieths

Seventieth Sentence Examples

  • He died of gangrene of the leg in his seventieth year.

  • In his seventieth year, as lieutenant-general of the North, he led the English host on the great day of Flodden, earning a patent of the dukedom of Norfolk, dated 1 February 1513/4, and that strange patent which granted to him and his heirs that they should bear in the midst of the silver bend of their Howard shield a demi-lion stricken in the mouth with an arrow, in the right colours of the arms of the king of Scotland.

  • They had an existence of six months, and were finally received back by the state at about the seventieth part of their face-value in coin.

  • In August 1753 he took to his bed, and he died at Copenhagen on the 28th of January 1754, in the seventieth year of his age.

  • When in his seventieth year, Ferguson, intending to prepare a new edition of the history, visited Italy and some of the principal cities of Europe, where he was received with honour by learned societies.

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