Definition of Seventy-three

1. Adjective. Being three more than seventy.

Exact synonyms: 73, Lxxiii
Similar to: Cardinal

Definition of Seventy-three

1. Number. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-two and preceding seventy-four. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventy-three

seventy-firsts
seventy-five
seventy-four
seventy-fours
seventy-fourth
seventy-nine
seventy-ninth
seventy-one
seventy-oneth
seventy-second
seventy-seven
seventy-seventh
seventy-six
seventy-sixth
seventy-third
seventy-three (current term)
seventy-two
seventyfold
seventyish
seventysomething
sever
severabilities
severability
severable
severable contract
several
several(a)
several(p)
several states

Literary usage of Seventy-three

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"On the county of Hancock, four thousand nineteen dollars and seventy-three cents. On the county of Green, three thousand seven hundred twelve dollars and ..."

2. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"Died on the river St. John, January, 1834, at the age of seventy-three. He was a member ot the House of Assembly for some years for the county of Sunbury. ..."

3. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1876)
"... and chapter five hundred and eighty-seven of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three." In lines 14 and 15, same page, the following, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"This last precaution Dickinson considers highly important. Voluminous Multilocular Ovarian Cyst in a Woman Aged seventy-three Years. ..."

5. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"... still peror to be aware of seventy-three years, i delivered oracles in dreams. He informs and that Nero concluded he was to die at us also, ..."

6. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"... 1867—John Stuart Mill in Parliament—seventy-three Votes for his Bill—John Bright's Vote— Women Register and Vote—Lord-Chief-Justice of England Declares ..."

7. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"vni. and sudden warning, that the Athenians at Samo? might not be aware of their setting forth, went into the Hellespont with seventy-three galleys, ..."

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