seventy-four

seventy-four
adjective
being four more than seventy
• Syn: ↑74, ↑lxxiv
• Similar to: ↑cardinal

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I. \\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adjective
: being one more than 73 in number

seventy-four years

— see number table
II. pronoun, plural in construction
: 74 countable persons or things not specified but under consideration and being enumerated

seventy-four are here

seventy-four were found

III. noun
1. : four and 70 : two times 37
2.
a. : 74 units or objects

a total of seventy-four

b. : a group or set of 74
3. : the numerable quantity symbolized by the arabic numerals 74
4. : the 74th in a set or series
5. : an old-time warship rated as carrying 74 guns
6. : a highly regarded southern African sparid food fish (Polysteganus undulosus) having a rosy red color above shading to white below with several wavy longitudinal blue streaks along the sides

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/sev"euhn tee fawr", -fohr"/, n.
1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
2. a symbol for this number, as 74 or LXXIV.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
adj.
4. amounting to 74 in number.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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