seventies

Variant of seventy

seventy definition

sev·enty (sev′ən tē; often, -ən dē)

adjective

seven times ten

Etymology: ME seofentig < OE (hund)seofontig: see seven & -ty

noun pl. seventies -·ties

the cardinal number between sixty-nine and seventy-one; 70; LXX
seventy Idioms

the seventies

the numbers or years, as of a century, from seventy through seventy-nine

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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