seventy
SEV-uhn-dee/ˈsɛv.ən.di/
- 1The cardinal number that follows sixty-nine and comes before seventy-one, written as 70 in Arabic numerals and LXX in Roman numerals.
The gallery displayed seventy paintings from the artist's final decade.
Voter turnout reached seventy percent across the district this year.
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Origin
From Middle English seventy, from Old English hundseofontiġ, going back to Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą, and equivalent to seven plus the suffix -ty. It is related to Dutch zeventig, German siebzig, and Swedish sjuttio.