seventy

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Euphrasia seventy, which is not old for frugal people, though it is just as well to add that there had never been a breath of scandal about either of them, in Ripton or elsewhere.

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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 7 × 10.
  2. noun A decade or the numbers from 70 to 79: They became grandparents in their seventies. The temperature hovered in the seventies.
  3. noun The decade from 70 to 79 in a century.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English -seofontig (in hundseofontig, the decad seventy, seventy); see septm̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English seofentiʒ, seoventi, seventi, from Anglo-Saxon hund-seofontig (the element hund- being later dropped: see hundred) = Old Saxon sibuntig = OFries. siuguntich = Dutch zeventig = MLG seventich = Old High German sibunzug, sibunzō, Middle High German siben-zic, G. siebenzig, siebzig = Icelandic sjautugr = Swedish sjuttio = Norwegian sytti = Gothic (Moesogothic) sibun-tehund, seventy: cf. Latin septuaginta (later English Septuagint), Greek ἑβδομηκοντα, Sanskrit saptati, seventy; as seven + -ty.
 

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