Meaning & use
seventy
The number 70, equal to seven multiplied by ten, written out in English as 'seventy'.
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She turned seventy last month and celebrated with her entire family.
The recipe calls for baking the bread at seventy degrees Celsius during proofing.
A note on using this word
Seventy is spelled with a 'v', unlike 'seventeen', which some learners confuse it with when writing numbers.
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