Seventieth

//ˈsɛvnti.əθ// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The person or thing in the seventieth position.

    "All the septuagenarians remembered their seventieths fondly."

  2. 2
    position 70 in a countable series of things wordnet
  3. 3
    One of seventy equal parts of a whole.
Adjective
  1. 1
    The ordinal form of the number seventy. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    the ordinal number of seventy in counting order wordnet

Synonyms

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70th70th70th

Example

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"Tom died just one day after his seventieth birthday."

Etymology

From earlier seventeth, from Middle English seventiþe, seventithe; equivalent to seventy + -eth. For the modern form, see the etymological notes at twentieth.

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