Definition of Seventy-one

1. Adjective. Being one more than seventy.

Exact synonyms: 71, Lxxi
Similar to: Cardinal

Definition of Seventy-one

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventy-one

seventies
seventieth
seventieths
seventy
seventy-eight
seventy-eighth
seventy-fifth
seventy-first
seventy-firsts
seventy-five
seventy-four
seventy-fours
seventy-fourth
seventy-nine
seventy-ninth
seventy-one (current term)
seventy-oneth
seventy-second
seventy-seven
seventy-seventh
seventy-six
seventy-sixth
seventy-third
seventy-three
seventy-two
seventyfold
seventyish
seventysomething
sever

Literary usage of Seventy-one

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

1. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1915)
"... seventy, seventy-one and seventy-two of the Harge canal," was read the third time. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the ..."

2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1872)
"Page 30, lines 8 to 11, strike out the following words: "For ninety- five copies Legislative Manual, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, pursuant to ..."

3. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"Arid towards the conclusion of his travelling services, between the years seventy-one and seventy-seven, he visited the churches of Christ in the ..."

4. Hebrew Literature: Comprising Talmudic Treatises, Hebrew Melodies and the by Epiphanius Wilson, Joseph Barclay, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Alice Lucas (1901)
"A city must not be excluded, save by the tribunal of seventy-one. ... The Great Sanhedrin consisted of seventy-one members, and the small one of ..."

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