Seventy Definition
sĕvən-tē
seventies
noun
seventies
The cardinal number between sixty-nine and seventy-one; 70; LXX.
Webster's New World
A decade or the numbers from 70 to 79.
They became grandparents in their seventies. The temperature hovered in the seventies.
American Heritage
The decade from 70 to 79 in a century.
American Heritage
idiom
the seventies
- the numbers or years, as of a century, from seventy through seventy-nine
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Seventy
- the seventies
Origin of Seventy
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Middle English from Old English -seofontig (in hundseofontig the decade seventy, seventy) septm̥ in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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