seventy-nine

[ sev-uh n-tee-nahyn ]

/ ˈsɛv ən tiˈnaɪn /

a cardinal number, 70 plus 9.

a symbol for this number, as 79 or LXXIX.

a set of this many persons or things.

amounting to 79 in number.

Words nearby seventy-nine

Seventy-nine percent of liberals, 62 percent of moderates, and 45 percent of conservatives want government to combat inequality.

Hey Democrats! Ignore the Centrists, Americans Want You to Tackle Inequality |Jamelle Bouie |December 18, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Seventy-nine of these were 14 or younger when they were condemned.

Ex-Prisoners Say Life Term Is Cruel for Teens, As Case Hits High Court |Sandra McElwaine |March 19, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Seventy-nine percent of the women interviewed said they had been sexually abused as children by an average of four perpetrators.

Native American Nightmare |Leslie Bennetts |October 27, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Of the seventy-nine, thirty-five died before spring, and many more were brought to the verge of death.

Pioneers Of France In The New World |Francis Parkman, Jr.

Three dollars a day for each nurse, for seventy-nine days, till you are home on Thanksgiving morning.

The Red Cross in Peace and War |Clara Barton
We brought off three hundred prisoners, but lost three guns and one hundred and seventy-nine prisoners from Churchill's command.

Destruction and Reconstruction: |Richard Taylor
Seventy-nine miles one way, and eighty-four miles by another way.

In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria |Henry Morton Stanley
In this document there are one hundred and thirty-two letters, giving seventy-nine consonants to fifty-three vowels.

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth |Jules Verne