seventieth
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- adjective
- /ˈsɛvənˌtiːəθ/
:
septuagésimo
- It's Granny's seventieth birthday. "Is it really your birthday?"
- seventieth anniversary
- seventieth birthday
Examples
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Having achieved my full height and then maintained it for some decades, I began to shrink as I neared my seventieth birthday.
Academic text (2001) -
This year, we celebrated her seventieth birthday with a big party.
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He reached the seventieth floor one minute before the appointed time and quickly found the suite.
Fiction book (1994) -
He had thought then how wonderful it must be to reach one's seventieth birthday without aging a day past thirty.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was one of her topics these days: until he reached his seventieth birthday, he could continue teaching a class or two if he wished.
Fiction book (1992) -
In his seventieth year when The Life was published, Leon Edel was recognizably "the Master" in his own area of art.
Academic text (1997) -
She was so famous that Bonniers had no trouble whatsoever in assembling an international team of voices for a tribute on her seventieth birthday in 1919.
Academic text (1996) -
The year 1989 contained several memorable anniversaries: the fortieth anniversary of the founding of Communist China, the seventieth anniversary of the May 4th Movement, and the two hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution.
Academic text (1998) -
There was a large framed photograph of Rosemary's family's reunion picnic last summer, in honor of her father's seventieth birthday, with Cory looking overwhelmed among the hundred and twenty-three Reardons and relatives.
Fiction book (1996) -
The show featured performances to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the theatre.
Synonyms
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The number that comes after sixty-nine in a list
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Etymology
Seventieth is simply seventy plus the ending -th, where seven is the base number and -th shows an order or 'position'. So seventieth means 'number 70' in a list or order.