The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seventy-four \Sev`en*ty-four"\, n. (Naut.) A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A ship having seventy-four guns. num. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-three and preceding seventy-five.
WordNet
adj. being four more than seventy [syn: 74, lxxiv]
Usage examples of "seventy-four".
In Delmonico, she lived with seventy-four staffers, an army of housekeepers, a team of gardeners and a small detachment of marines.
Now he was seventy-four years old and the active head of Beame, Mearns, Weld and Weld, the most prestigious law firm in Washington.
This, with the six sequins of life-income left by Barbaro and the six given by Dandolo, gave him a monthly income of three hundred and eighty-four lires--about seventy-four U.
The last supervolcano eruption on Earth was at Toba, in northern Sumatra, seventy-four thousand years ago.
New Yorkers who lived and worked nearby, its seventy-four acres the largest piece of undeveloped land on the island outside Central Park.
Remember that you have in your English home seventy-four fine cats, mostly Angoras.
Petition against Javogues, with several pages of signatures, especially those of the inhabitants of Montbrison: "In the report made by him to the Convention he puts down coin and assignats at seven hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred and ninety-six francs, while the spoils of one person provided him with five hundred thousand francs in cash.
He did five years in prison, got out, and was still boodling at the age of seventy-four.
He did five years in prison, got out, and was still boodling at the age of seventy-four.
No sound in this universal roar, and the smoke was swept instantly away, but it was clear that the seventy-four had opened up with her chasers, trained sharp forward from the bridle-ports in her bluff bows and that a lucky shot had struck right home, smashing his coffee-cup - a chance in a million.
And once anchored in the young—body, you, with all your scruples and values, all your knowledge of seventy-four years, remained an chored in the young cells.
And once anchored in the young - body, you, with all your scruples and values, all your knowledge of seventy-four years, remained an chored in the young cells.
Under these come the borough police forces, 453 in all, being comprised of seventy-four Central Commissariats, 253 Constituency Commissariats and 126 local Postes de Police.
He was an austere, grave, morose churchman, second chaplain to the Bishop, Archdeacon of Josas, having under him the two deaneries of Montlhéry and Châteaufort, and one hundred and seventy-four parish priests.
In this uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho is fortunate to be offered the seventy-four gun Athena, and as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Bethune once more follows his destiny to the Caribbean.