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Definition of Seventy-six
1. Adjective. Being six more than seventy.
Definition of Seventy-six
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-five and preceding seventy-seven. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventy-six
Literary usage of Seventy-six
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... seventy-six YEARS AFTER BY THE AUTHOR'S SON IN the preceding chapter, my father
contrasted the solitary bay of San Francisco in 1835, its one, ..."
2. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1902)
"Edwin P. Skerrett had Three thousand eight hundred and seventy six votes, 3876
Jesse Barnes had Three thousand eight hundred and seventy six votes, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... and that the sum of thirteen thousand four hundred and seventy-six ^Д dollars
was paid thereon by property owners, and a warrant for three thousand two ..."
4. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"ON BOARD THE seventy-six. [Written for Bryant's Seventieth Birthday.] OUR ship
lay tumbling in an angry sea, Her rudder gone, her mainmast o'er the side ..."
5. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Samuel Hazard (1853)
"... north seventy-six degrees and a half west seventy-four perches, north eighty-two
degrees west thirty-three perches, north seventy-six degrees west ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"... and referred to an annexed plat of land, which was described in the grant as
a "tract or parcel of land containing nine hundred and seventy-six acres, ..."
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