seventy-seven

seventy-seven
/sev"euhn tee sev"euhn/, n.
1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 7.
2. a symbol for this number, as 77 or LXXVII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
adj.
4. amounting to 77 in number.

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