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SEVENTIES
seventies, mid-seventies
(noun) the time of life between 70 and 80
seventies
(noun) the decade from 1970 to 1979
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
seventies
plural of seventy
seventies pl (plural only)
The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.
(temperature, rates, pluralonly) The range between 70 and 79.
Adjective
seventies (not comparable)
From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).
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Source: Wiktionary
SEVENTY
Sev"en*ty, a. Etym: [AS. hund-seofontig. See Seven, and Ten, and cf. Seventeen, Sixty.]
Definition: Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.
Sev"en*ty, n.; pl. Seventies (.
1. The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
2. A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx. The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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