Seventies
[sevntɪz]
Definition
(noun.) the time of life between 70 and 80.
(noun.) the decade from 1970 to 1979.
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Definition
(pl. ) of Seventy
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Examples
- On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- During the seventies and eighties a stormy controversy raged throughout the civilized world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Edison’s, in truth, was the master mind, the forming spirit of all the advances made in the seventies and eighties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Back in the seventies an English botanist, Wickham by name, smuggled many Hevea seeds out of Brazil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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