Crossword clues for seventieth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seventieth \Sev"en*ti*eth\, a. [AS. hund-seofontigo[eth]a.]
Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.
Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.
Seventieth \Sev"en*ti*eth\, n.
One next in order after the sixty-ninth.
The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number seventy. n. 1 The person or thing in the seventieth position. 2 One of seventy equal parts of a whole.
WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of seventy in counting order [syn: 70th]
n. position 70 in a countable series of things
Usage examples of "seventieth".
Jonelle enjoyed her dinner companions, a table around which sat younger, hipper people than one might think the staid Phillips into its seventieth year would draw, and danced with now-fellow reporter George Stephanopoulos when they found themselves the only two wallflowers left staring over the blue hydrangeas and red roses.
GREAT BOOK, tile Seventy-first on LOVE, wherein nothing is written, but the Reader receives a Lanthorn, a Powder-cask and a Pick-axe, and therewith pursues his yellow-dusking path across the rubble of preceding excavators in the solitary quarry: a yet more instructive passage than the overscrawled Seventieth, or French Section, whence the chapter opens, and where hitherto the polite world has halted.
His flight pattern called for him to proceed to the seventieth degree of latitude and to fly along it until Lis scintillometer recorded .
Indeed, as the twentieth century approached its end --an event that would almost exactly coincide with my seventieth birthday--I had the impression, as a longtime warrior against the political leftism I embraced in my thirties and the liberationism in which it expressed itself culturally, and as a more recent soldier in the fight against the anti-Americanism of the Right, that some kind of peace was at hand.
The doorman admitted us to one of the toniest buildings on Park Avenue, just north of Seventieth Street.
Then having pursued them in their flight, after he had depopulated the entire Volscian land, he at length in the seventieth year forced the Volscians to a surrender.
But, in the Isle of Cephalonia, his projects were fatally blasted by an epidemical disease: Robert himself, in the seventieth year of his age, expired in his tent.
At the seventieth step they ended in the centre of an octagonally walled chamber.