seventy-one

seventy-one
adjective
being one more than seventy
Syn: ↑71, ↑lxxi
Similar to: ↑cardinal

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I. \\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adjective
: being one more than 70 in number

seventy-one years

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

seventy-one are here

seventy-one were found

III. noun
1. : one and 70
2.
a. : 71 units or objects

a total of seventy-one

b. : a group or set of 71
3. : the numerable quantity symbolized by the arabic numerals 71
4. : the 71st in a set or series

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/sev"euhn tee wun"/, n.
1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
2. a symbol for this number, as 71 or LXXI.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
adj.
4. amounting to 71 in number.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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