ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Seventies

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Seventies is a noun meaning plural of seventy.

Meaning

plural of seventy.

More Meanings

  1. The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
  2. The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.
  3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 70 and 79.
  4. From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).

Example Sentences

You don't need your parka today, it's in the seventies.
I'm so bored of this decade, the seventies can't come soon enough.
My grandma met her third wife when they were both in their seventies.
I know the theme of the school dance is "The 1970s" but is covering the walls, floor, and ceiling with tie-dye too seventies?

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Related dictionary entries include onwards, eighties, nineties, twenties, forties, fifties.

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