SEVENTY-FIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seventy-five mean? 

• SEVENTY-FIVE (adjective)
  The adjective SEVENTY-FIVE has 1 sense:

1. being five more than seventy

  Familiarity information: SEVENTY-FIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENTY-FIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being five more than seventy

Synonyms:

75; lxxv; seventy-five

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

They live generally to seventy, or seventy-five years, very seldom to fourscore.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“As you know, we’re short a mate. Hereafter you shall stand watches, receive seventy-five dollars per month, and be addressed fore and aft as Mr. Van Weyden.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was true the serial was twenty-one thousand words, and they offered to pay him sixteen dollars on publication, which was something like seventy-five cents a thousand words; but it was equally true that it was the second thing he had attempted to write and that he was himself thoroughly aware of its clumsy worthlessness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So far as climate goes, it was immaterial what time we chose for our expedition, as the temperature ranges from seventy-five to ninety degrees both summer and winter, with no appreciable difference in heat.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I want seventy-five cents more."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a difficult cast to make on a rolling ship, but the sharp point of the spike, whistling seventy-five feet through the air, barely missed Wolf Larsen’s head as he emerged from the cabin companion-way and drove its length two inches and over into the solid deck-planking.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)