seventy-nine

seventy-nine
/sev"euhn tee nuyn"/, n.
1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 9.
2. a symbol for this number, as 79 or LXXIX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
adj.
4. amounting to 79 in number.

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