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seventieth

seventieth

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A person or thing in position number seventy in a list
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛvənˌtiːəθ/
translation icon : septuagésimo
  • It was fortunate that she was good friends with Tim Powers, the superintendent of 3 East Seventieth.

Examples

  • "Three East Seventieth.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Humming, she pulled out the file on 3 East Seventieth and began to study it.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The names at the lower end of the alphabet, about two hundred combat infantry soldiers, were assigned to the Seventieth Tank Battalion, First Cavalry Division, a celebrated unit that had been decimated in Korea.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • A skinny boy with a fanatic's hollow cheeks, hand raised in salute to the Great Father on his seventieth, looking down from the ramparts of the Kremlin.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • In 1905, he was toasted at a seventieth-birthday banquet at Delmonico's that included, among its guests, Willa Cather and Emily Post.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Jonathan Edwards, the well-known preacher and theologian, wrote in the seventieth of his famous Resolutions just before his twentieth birthday: "Resolved: Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can."

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  • We threw a surprise party to celebrate his seventieth birthday.

  • The seventieth anniversary of their wedding was an unforgettable event.

  • She received a special gift for her seventieth birthday from all her friends.

Synonyms

70th
vsseventieth
14 1.0

The number that comes after sixty-nine in a list

is the same meaning but written as a full word

How Late

hundredth
14 1.0
seventieth
1 1.0
fiftieth
7 1.0
tenth
35 1.0
first
7 1.0

Surface Forms

seventieth singular

Morphology

seventieth = seventy (transparent) = seventy + ieth

Regular ordinal formation from the cardinal 'seventy' using the ordinal suffix '-ieth' (orthographic y→i change), so meaning is directly derived.

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.