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Definition of Seventies

1. Noun. The decade from 1970 to 1979.

Definition of Seventies

1. Noun. (plural of seventy) ¹

2. Noun. The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc. ¹

3. Noun. The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seventies

1. seventy [n] - See also: seventy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventies

Literary usage of Seventies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"IN the seventies I was bearing in my breast, Penned tight, Certain starry thoughts that ... In the seventies when my neighbours—even my friend— Saw me pass, ..."

2. California: An Intimate History by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1914)
"... XIX THE TERRIBLE seventies SPECULATION is a permanent microbe in the blood of Californians, and they are never really happy save when they have turned ..."

3. The Life of Whitelaw Reid by Royal Cortissoz (1921)
"CHAPTER XV NEW YORK IN THE seventies The New York of the seventies lies separated from the New York of our own time by differences on which the statistics ..."

4. Sixty Years with the Bible: A Record of Experience by William Newton Clarke (1909)
"... IV THE seventies DURING the entire decade of the seventies I was neighbor and pastor to a Theological Seminary. It would naturally be expected that such ..."

5. Wife No. 19: Or The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"Another polygamist of the same stamp is Joseph Young, brother to Brigham, and President of the seventies. He has busied himself in " building up his kingdom ..."

6. Literary History of Russia by Aleksander Brückner, Ellis H. Minns (1908)
"In the fifties and sixties, nay even in the seventies, there were very few poets that came forward with lyrics and even ot these few, scarcely one here and ..."

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