seventy-three
- numeral
- /ˈsɛvənˌti θri/
- My grandmother turned seventy-three years old yesterday during the family celebration.
- seventy-three percent
- seventy-three years old
- seventy-three years
Examples
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Even if they cut my sentence in half, I'll be seventy-three years old.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her father, at the age of seventy-three, had developed diabetes.
Fiction book (1996) -
At seventy-three or so, he was still very much in the game.
Fiction book (2002) -
Daddy was only seventy-three when he died, but he looked much older, ravaged.
Fiction book (2001) -
According to his official biography, Peron was then seventy-three years old.
Academic text (1993) -
Seventy-three families completed the project and accompanying survey, for a response rate of 61%.
Academic text (2009) -
At one time, there were seventy-three monks at Vyssi Brod.
Fiction book (2002) -
The noted geographer James E. Vance Jr. died at the age of seventy-three in his Berkeley, California, home on 3 August 1999.
Academic text (1999) -
Of approximately 14,500 individual respondents, only seventy-three people expressed approval of the government plan (The Star 1984b).
Academic text (1993) -
Anyhow, look at these tracking polls; they'll burn up in your hands: seventy-three percent with seniors, eighty-four with working mothers...
Fiction book (1993)
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Seventy-three is made of seventy and three. The part seventy means 'seven groups of ten', so seventy-three means seventy 'plus' three, the number 73.