SEVENTY-SIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seventy-six mean? 

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

1. being six more than seventy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENTY-SIX (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being six more than seventy

Synonyms:

76; lxxvi; seventy-six

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

As to their military affairs, they boast that the king’s army consists of a hundred and seventy-six thousand foot, and thirty-two thousand horse: if that may be called an army, which is made up of tradesmen in the several cities, and farmers in the country, whose commanders are only the nobility and gentry, without pay or reward.

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

Miss Morland has been talking of nothing more dreadful than a new publication which is shortly to come out, in three duodecimo volumes, two hundred and seventy-six pages in each, with a frontispiece to the first, of two tombstones and a lantern—do you understand?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)