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seventyodd

seventyodd numeral: slightly more than seventy.

Numeral

seventyodd

  1. Slightly more than seventy.
    • If we conceive of the poetry that has been written in English in the last twelve months as a kind of Purgatory, a mountainous cone like Dante’s, with a spiral pathway leading to its summit, we shall find among the one hundred and seventyodd volumes on its lower rounds no ponderable significance...1905 September, Ferris Greenslet, “Significant Poetry”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2025

Origin of seventyodd

From seventy + -odd.

Questions about seventyodd

What does seventyodd mean?
Seventyodd means slightly more than seventy.
What part of speech is seventyodd?
Seventyodd is a numeral.

Words near seventyodd in the dictionary

  1. seventyfive
  2. seventyfold
  3. seventyfour
  4. seventyish
  5. seventynine
  6. seventyodd
  7. seventyone
  8. seventyseven
  9. seventysix
  10. seventysomething
  11. seventysomethings

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