seventy-one

[ sev-uhn-tee-wuhn ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
2. a symbol for this number, as 71 or LXXI.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 71 in number.

Example Sentences

Isaac Granger Jefferson, as he called himself and was widely known in his later years, died in 1846 at the age of seventy-one, a free man of color.

From Literature

“The women in my family look younger than we actually are. We take after my grandmother. She’s seventy-one years old, but she doesn’t look a day over fifty.”

From Literature

He wormed his ship through the ice pack to reach seventy-one degrees south latitude, and then turned north again without ever seeing the land.

From Literature

At my last practice before the trip, I only sank seventy-one out of one hundred free throws.

From Literature

To be fair, I suppose the boy is seventy-one.

From Literature