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seventy-five

seventy-five

47 1.0
A number equal to 75
  • numeral
  • /ˈsɛvənti faɪv/
translation icon : setenta y cinco
  • There are just eight female faculty members in a total of seventy-five faculty members.
  • seventy-five percent
  • seventy-five years
  • a seventy-five-year-old

Examples

  • By 1993, Ministry of Labor figures showed only seventy-five job offerings for every one hundred job seekers.

    Academic text (1996)
  • " Just exactly what are we supposed to do with seventy-five thousand dollars?

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Seventy-five dollars is yours to share.

  • Upon its opening in 1550, it was leased for four years at seventy-five pounds a year.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The book includes about seventy-five historical photographs, most taken from the Charlevoix Historical Society's collection.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Outside the clinic, a line of perhaps seventy-five wait patiently, watching as Hasari takes off again.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Later, I found the envelope of money on the steps, seventy-five dollars, which smelled faintly of perfume.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Mount Sinai was especially proud of its airy wards that housed seventy-five much-needed beds and its operating rooms.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Seventy-five... students graduated from the program this year.

  • She collected seventy-five unique stamps from around the world.

Synonyms

lxxv
vsseventy-five
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A Roman numeral that means seventy-five

is the same number written with Arabic digits rather than Roman numerals

How Many

hundred
1.0
seventy-five
47 1.0
fifty
876 1.0
ten
311 1.0
one
1.0

Surface Forms

seventy-five cardinal word
75 cardinal digit

Morphology

seventy-five = seventy + five (transparent) = seventy + five

The meaning is a direct, conventional numeric compound combining 'seventy' and 'five' to denote 75.

Etymology

Seventy-five is simply made from seventy and five, where seventy means 'seven tens' and five means 'five', so seventy-five literally means 'seven tens and five' and therefore names the number 75.