70th
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- adjective
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septuagésimo
- I had a friend whose daughter paid for her to go to Florida for her 70th birthday.
- 70th anniversary
- 70th birthday
- 70th percentile
Examples
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 70th Annual Hazzard Road Rally!
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Kim selected a premium option for her father's 70th birthday since he was one of Fat Harold's biggest fans.
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The point is, it's his 70th birthday.
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On this, my 70th mission!
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So much for my 70th birthday.
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I believe you will soon be reaching your 70th birthday.
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My mother is celebrating her 70th birthday this Friday.
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Shirley celebrated her 70th birthday in 2012 and now resides in Arkansas.
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Roger Daltrey is two years away from his 70th birthday, but he returned from backstage determined to nail it.
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My mother is celebrating her 70th birthday this Friday.
Synonyms
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The position that is number seventy in a list
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Morphology
70th = 70 (transparent) = 70 + th
Standard ordinal formation from the cardinal number '70' using the productive English ordinal suffix '-th'.
Etymology
The word 70th is the ordinal form of seventy, made by adding -th to show 'order' or position. It literally means the number that comes 'after' sixty-nine, so we use 70th for things like a 70th birthday, a 70th anniversary, or a 70th place in a race.