seventies

seventies

English

Alternative forms

• (of the decade) 'seventies

Noun

seventies

1. plural of seventy

Noun

seventies pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
   • 1914, Amherst College, Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, volume 4, page 6:

     Our readers — and contributors — are apt to elect a good deal according to years. The seventies and eighties, we may suppose, are concerned for the large educational and cultural interests of their Alma Mater; the nineties are deep in the practical and business activities; the noughties are not naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest.

   • 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:

     'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length.

2. The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.
3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 70 and 79.

Synonyms

• 1970s, '70s, 70s

Translations

the decade of the 1970s

Arabic: Egyptian Arabic: السبعينات‎ f pl (el-sabʿīnāt) Dutch: jaren zeventig n pl, jaren 70 n pl, jaren 1970 n pl Finnish: seitsemänkymmentäluku French: les années soixante-dix f pl, années 70 f pl German: siebziger Jahre n pl, Siebziger (de) pl Hindi: सत्तर का दशक m (sattar kā daśak) Hungarian: hetvenes évek Japanese: 七十年代 (nanajū-nendai), 70年代 (nanajū-nendai) Korean: 70년대 (chilsimnyeondae) Polish: lata siedemdziesiąte pl, lata 70. pl Swedish: sjuttiotalet (sv) n, sjuttiotal (sv) n, 1970-tal n Welsh: saithdegau m pl, seithdegau m pl

See also

• septuagenarian

decades in English (edit)

22nd century	2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
21st century	2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
20th century	1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
19th century	1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
18th century	1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
14th century	1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s
Decade only	00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
	'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
	00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
	zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Nicknames	Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties

Adjective

seventies (not comparable)

1. From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).

   I know the theme of the school dance is "The 1970s" but is covering the walls, floor, and ceiling with tie-dye too seventies?

   • 2011, John Covach, “The Hippie Aesthetic: Cultural Positioning and Musical Ambition in Early Progressive Rock”, in Mark Spicer, editor, Rock Music, Routledge, DOI:10.4324/9781315088631-4, →ISBN, page 65:

     Among rock critics and journalists, there is an overwhelming bias to view the late sixties in a positive light and seventies music as an unfortunate decline into commercialism at the expense of musical authenticity.

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