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seventy-seven

seventy-seven

3 1.0
A number that is seventy plus seven
  • numeral
  • /ˈsɛvənˌtiˈsɛvən/
translation icon : setenta y siete
  • More likely, he was considerably under seventy-seven.
  • seventy-seven percent

Examples

  • Rodgers died on December 30, 1979, at the age of seventy-seven.

    Academic text (2002)
  • I may be seventy-seven, but I'm in good shape; I'm still a good man in a fight.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Her mother had said he was seventy-seven.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • But again, at seventy-seven, what did a few wrinkles matter?

    Fiction book (1990)
  • One study has projected that the number of Internet users under age sixteen will exceed seventy-seven million by 2005.

    Academic text (2002)
  • J. Edgar Hoover is dead at the age of seventy-seven.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Seventy-seven percent of the participants were male; 68% were 40 years old or less.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Seventy-seven African American high school students completed the revised version of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Seventy-seven people resided in the nondementia section of the facility.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The final score was seventy-seven to seventy-four.

Synonyms

LXXVII
vsseventy-seven
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The Roman numeral for seventy-seven

is the numeric form written as digits rather than letters

How Many

ninety
296 1.0
eighty
229 1.0
seventy-seven
3 1.0
seventy-two
14 1.0
seventy
264 1.0

Surface Forms

seventy-seven cardinal word
77 cardinal digit
77th ordinal digit

Morphology

seventy-seven = seventy + seven (transparent) = seventy + seven

A straightforward hyphenated compound of two cardinal numbers; the numeric composition is obvious to learners.

Etymology

The number seventy-seven combines seventy and seven, meaning 'seven groups of ten plus seven', so it is seven more than seventy.