seventy-one
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- numeral
- /ˈsɛvənti wʌn/
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setenta y uno
- There were seventy-one students in the classroom, all eager to learn.
- seventy-one percent
- seventy-one years
- seventy-one years old
Examples
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In his first year, Pickering persuaded seventy-one individuals to pledge annual gifts totaling $5,000 per year for five years.
Academic text (1991) -
On the basis of these criteria, seventy-one people were chosen to enter the first draw, held in October 1980.
Academic text (2002) -
Mother is seventy-one years old and has lived alone since Harry died three years ago.
Fiction book (1991) -
And there, at the age of seventy-one, he still managed to stir up trouble.
Academic text (2001) -
I say, 'What is it like for you with somebody seventy-one?' and she tells me, 'It's perfect with somebody seventy-one.'
Fiction book (2001) -
Over the same period, U.S. imports from Canada grew by seventy-one percent, while U.S. imports from ROW grew by fifty percent.
Academic text (1997) -
Seventy-one pieces of paper with seventy-one numbers were placed in a barrel.
Academic text (2002) -
The sample included fifty-two rural and seventy-one urban hospital leaders.
Academic text (1994) -
By contrast, each of the seventy-one lower court judges on the ballot was easily reelected.
Academic text (2011) -
On display would be a newly discovered codex and seventy-one pots from museums and private collections.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
A Roman numeral meaning seventy-one
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Etymology
The word seventy-one is simply seventy plus one, which literally means 'seven tens and one', so it is 'one more than seventy'.