seventies
IPA: sˈɛvʌntiz
noun
- The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
- The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 70 and 79.
adjective
- From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).
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Examples of "seventies" in Sentences
- The term dates back to the seventies.
- In the seventies, India was a rich country.
- He was fiction editor at Esquire in the seventies.
- The Cannery was demolished in the eighties, late seventies.
- By the end of the seventies, many characters had been recast.
- Forcible eviction of the Kurubas started in the early seventies.