- seventy-four
- adjectivebeing four more than seventy• Syn: ↑74, ↑lxxiv• Similar to: ↑cardinal
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I. \\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adjective: being one more than 73 in numberseventy-four years
— see number tableII. pronoun, plural in construction: 74 countable persons or things not specified but under consideration and being enumeratedseventy-four are here
III. nounseventy-four were found
1. : four and 70 : two times 372.a. : 74 units or objectsa total of seventy-four
b. : a group or set of 743. : the numerable quantity symbolized by the arabic numerals 744. : the 74th in a set or series5. : an old-time warship rated as carrying 74 guns6. : 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* * *
/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.