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Seventieth

Sĕv'en-ti-eth, a.

adjective

a. [A-S. seofontigōðha, hund-seofontigōðha.]

Sense 1. Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.

Sense 2. Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts into which any thing is divided; as, the seventieth part of a thing.

Sĕv'en-ti-eth, n.

noun

n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts. 2. One next in order after the sixty-ninth; the tenth after the sixtieth.