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SEVENTY-NINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seventy-nine mean?
• SEVENTY-NINE (adjective)
The adjective SEVENTY-NINE has 1 sense:
1. being nine more than seventy
Familiarity information: SEVENTY-NINE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being nine more than seventy
Synonyms:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples
A natural number greater than seventy-nine and less than eighty-one and the quantity that it denotes.
(Eighty, NCI Thesaurus)
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