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seventy

name · num · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsɛv.ən.ti/
  • US, also: /ˈsɛv.ən.di/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: S EH1 V AH0 N T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: S EH1 V AH0 N IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

The translators of the Septuagint

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

num

Meaning 2

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

being ten more than sixty

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 70, lxx

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 70, LXX

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large integer

History

Etymology

From Middle English seventy, sevynty, from Old English hundseofontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą (“seventy”), equivalent to seven + -ty. Cognate with Scots seiventy (“seventy”), Saterland Frisian soogentich (“seventy”), West Frisian santich (“seventy”), Dutch zeventig (“seventy”), German Low German söventig (“seventy”), German siebzig (“seventy”), Swedish sjuttio (“seventy”), Norwegian sytti (“seventy”), Icelandic sjötíu (“seventy”).

Across languages

Translations

183 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • French: Septante — translators of the Septuagint
  • Afrikaans: sewentig — cardinal number
  • Albanian: shtatëdhjetë — cardinal number
  • Southern Altai: јетен (ǰeten) — cardinal number
  • Amharic: ሰባ (säba) — cardinal number
  • Amharic: ፸) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: سَبْعِينَ (sabʕīna) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: سَبْعُون (sabʕūn) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: سبعين (sabʕīn) — cardinal number
  • Armenian: յոթանասուն (yotʻanasun) — cardinal number
  • Aromanian: shaptidzãts — cardinal number
  • Asturian: setenta — cardinal number
  • Azerbaijani: yetmiş — cardinal number
  • Bashkir: етмеш (yetmeş) — cardinal number
  • Basque: hirurogeita hamar — cardinal number
  • Belarusian: се́мдзесят (sjémdzjesjat) — cardinal number
  • Bengali: সত্তর (śottor) — cardinal number
  • Central Bikol: pitompulo — cardinal number
  • Breton: dek ha tri-ugent — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: седемдесе́т (sedemdesét) — cardinal number
  • Burmese: ခုနစ်ဆယ် (hku.nachcai) — cardinal number
  • Carpathian Rusyn: сімдеся́ть (simdesjátʹ) — cardinal number
  • Catalan: setanta — cardinal number
  • Cebuano: kapitoan — cardinal number
  • Chechen: кхузткъе итт (quztqʼe itt) — cardinal number
  • Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏆᏍᎪᎯ (galiquasgohi) — cardinal number
  • Chichewa: makumi asanu ndiawiri — cardinal number
  • Chinese Mandarin: 七十 (qīshí) — cardinal number
  • Wu Chinese: 七十 (7chiq-zeq) — cardinal number
  • Chuukese: fiik — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: ҫитмӗл (śitmĕl) — cardinal number
  • Crimean Tatar: yetmiş — cardinal number
  • Czech: sedmdesát — cardinal number
  • Dalmatian: septuanta — cardinal number
  • Dalmatian: setuonta — cardinal number
  • Danish: halvfjerds — cardinal number
  • Danish: syvti — cardinal number
  • Dhivehi: ހަތްތަރި (hat̊tari) — cardinal number
  • Dhivehi: ހަތްދިހަ (hat̊diha) — cardinal number
  • Central Dusun: turu nohopod — cardinal number
  • Dutch: zeventig — cardinal number
  • Dzongkha: བདུན་ཅུ (bdun cu) — cardinal number
  • Esperanto: sepdek — cardinal number
  • Estonian: seitsekümmend — cardinal number
  • Farefare: pisyopɔɩ — cardinal number
  • Fijian: vitusagavulu — cardinal number
  • Finnish: seitsemänkymmentä — cardinal number
  • French: soixante-dix — cardinal number
  • French: septante — cardinal number
  • French: trois vingt dix — cardinal number
  • West-Frisian: santich — cardinal number
  • Friulian: setante — cardinal number
  • Galician: setenta — cardinal number
  • Georgian: სამოცდაათი (samocdaati) — cardinal number
  • German: siebzig — cardinal number
  • Greek: εβδομήντα (evdomínta) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: ο ́ — cardinal number
  • Hausa: saba'in — cardinal number
  • Hawaiian: kanahiku — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: שִׁבְעִים (shiv‘ím) — cardinal number
  • Hiligaynon: kapituan — cardinal number
  • Hindi: सत्तर (sattar) — cardinal number
  • Hungarian: hetven — cardinal number
  • Hunsrik: sibzich — cardinal number
  • Icelandic: sjötíu — cardinal number
  • Ido: sepadek — cardinal number
  • Indonesian: tujuh puluh — cardinal number
  • Ingrian: seitsenkymment — cardinal number
  • Interlingua: septanta — cardinal number
  • Irish: seachtó — cardinal number
  • Old Irish: sechtmoga — cardinal number
  • Italian: settanta — cardinal number
  • Japanese: 七十 — cardinal number
  • Kapampangan: pitumpulu — cardinal number
  • Karachay-Balkar: джетмиш (cetmiş) — cardinal number
  • Kazakh: жетпіс (jetpıs) — cardinal number
  • Khakas: читон (çiton) — cardinal number
  • Khmer: ចិតសិប (cət səp) — cardinal number
  • Komi-Permyak: сизимдас (śiźimdas) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 일흔 (ilheun) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 칠십 (chilsip) — cardinal number
  • Kumyk: етмиш (yetmiş) — cardinal number
  • Central Kurdish: حەفتا (ḧefta) — cardinal number
  • Northern Kurdish: heftê — cardinal number
  • Kyrgyz: жетимиш (jetimiş) — cardinal number
  • Ladin: setanta — cardinal number
  • Lakota: wikčémna šakówiŋ — cardinal number
  • Lao: ເຈັດສິບ (chet sip) — cardinal number
  • Latin: septuaginta — cardinal number
  • Latvian: septiņdesmit — cardinal number
  • Ligurian: settanta — cardinal number
  • Lithuanian: septyniasdešimt — cardinal number
  • Livonian: seiskimdõ — cardinal number
  • Lombard: setanta — cardinal number
  • Louisiana Creole: swasant-dis — cardinal number
  • Luxembourgish: siwwenzeg — cardinal number
  • Macedonian: седумдесет (sedumdeset) — cardinal number
  • Malagasy: fitopolo — cardinal number
  • Malay: tujuh puluh — cardinal number
  • Malay: pitu puluh — cardinal number
  • Malayalam: എഴുപത് (eḻupatŭ) — cardinal number
  • Maltese: sebgħin — cardinal number
  • Manchu: ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨᠵᡠ (nadanju) — cardinal number
  • Manx: tree feed as jeih — cardinal number
  • Māori: whitu tekau — cardinal number
  • Middle English: seventy — cardinal number
  • Mokilese: ijihjek — cardinal number
  • Mongolian: дал (dal) — cardinal number
  • Nauruan: aemo — cardinal number
  • Navajo: tsostsʼidiin — cardinal number
  • Norwegian: sytti — cardinal number
  • Occitan: setanta — cardinal number
  • Ojibwe: niizhwaasimidana — cardinal number
  • Old Church Slavonic: седмь десѧтъ (sedmĭ desętŭ) — cardinal number
  • Old English: hundseofontiġ — cardinal number
  • Old Saxon: antsivuntig — cardinal number
  • Old Turkic: 𐰘𐱅𐰢𐰾 — cardinal number
  • Oromo: torbatama — cardinal number
  • Pashto: اويا (awyā́) — cardinal number
  • Pennsylvania German: siwwezich — cardinal number
  • Persian: هفتاد (haftâd) — cardinal number
  • Piedmontese: stanta — cardinal number
  • Polish: siedemdziesiąt — cardinal number
  • Portuguese: setenta — cardinal number
  • Punjabi: ਸੱਤਰ (sattar) — cardinal number
  • Quechua: qanchis chunka — cardinal number
  • Romagnol: setànta — cardinal number
  • Romanian: șaptezeci — cardinal number
  • Romansh: settanta — cardinal number
  • Romansh: siatonta — cardinal number
  • Romansh: satànta — cardinal number
  • Romansh: settaunta — cardinal number
  • Russian: се́мьдесят (sémʹdesjat) — cardinal number
  • Samoan: fitusefulu — cardinal number
  • Sanskrit: सप्तति (saptati) — cardinal number
  • Santali: ᱮᱭᱟᱭ ᱜᱮᱞ (eyay gel) — cardinal number
  • Sardinian: setanta — cardinal number
  • Scottish Gaelic: trì fichead 's a deich — cardinal number
  • Scottish Gaelic: seachdad — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: седамдесет — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: sedamdeset — cardinal number
  • Shan: ၸဵတ်းသိပ်း (tsáet síp) — cardinal number
  • Sicilian: sittanta — cardinal number
  • Sinhalese: හැත්තෑව (hættǣwa) — cardinal number
  • Slovak: sedemdesiat — cardinal number
  • Slovene: sedemdeset — cardinal number
  • Spanish: setenta — cardinal number
  • Swahili: sabini — cardinal number
  • Swedish: sjuttio — cardinal number
  • Tagalog: pitumpu — cardinal number
  • Tahitian: hitu 'ahuru — cardinal number
  • Tajik: хафтод (xaftod) — cardinal number
  • Tatar: җитмеш (citmeş) — cardinal number
  • Telugu: డెబ్భై (ḍebbhai) — cardinal number
  • Thai: เจ็ดสิบ (jèt-sìp) — cardinal number
  • Tigrinya: ሰብዓ (säbʿa) — cardinal number
  • Tocharian B: ṣuktanka — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: seventi — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: sevenpela ten — cardinal number
  • Tongan: fitungofulu — cardinal number
  • Turkish: yetmiş — cardinal number
  • Ottoman Turkish: یتمش (yetmiş) — cardinal number
  • Turkmen: ýetmiş — cardinal number
  • Tuvan: чеден (çeden) — cardinal number
  • Udmurt: сизьымдон (śiźymdon) — cardinal number
  • Ukrainian: сі́мдесят (símdesjat) — cardinal number
  • Unami: nishash txinxke — cardinal number
  • Urdu: ستر (sattar) — cardinal number
  • Urdu: ہفتاد (haftād) — cardinal number
  • Uyghur: يەتمىش (yetmish) — cardinal number
  • Uzbek: yetmish — cardinal number
  • Venetan: setanta — cardinal number
  • Vietnamese: bảy mươi — cardinal number
  • Volapük: veldeg — cardinal number
  • Votic: seittsečümmed — cardinal number
  • Waray-Waray: kapituan — cardinal number
  • Welsh: deg a thrigain — cardinal number
  • Welsh: saith deg — cardinal number
  • Yakut: сэттэ уон (sette uon) — cardinal number
  • Yiddish: זיבעציק (zibetsik) — cardinal number
  • Yucatec Maya: lajun tu kankʼáal — cardinal number
  • Yup'ik: yuinaat pingayun qula — cardinal number
Real reading context

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