seventy-four

American  

[sev-uhn-tee-fawr, -fohr] / ˈsɛv ən tiˈfɔr, -ˈfoʊr /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.

2. a symbol for this number, as 74 or LXXIV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 74 in number.

Example Sentences

Those between eighteen and twenty-five are least likely to vote, while those sixty- five to seventy-four are most likely.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

“Seventy of seventy-four kids came back,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2020

The number 74,218,369 is written as seventy-four million, two hundred eighteen thousand, three hundred sixty-nine.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

Norman, who died on Monday, at the age of seventy-four, is herself an object of disbelieving awe—a phenomenon over which singers of the future can wonder and weep.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2019

Bryant didn’t admit until she was seventy-four years old that she’d lied.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson