Definitions for seventies

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seventies sev·en·ty

Spelling: [sev-uh n-tee]

IPA: /ˈsɛv ən ti/

Seventies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in seventies (eeeinsstv).

Definitions for seventies

noun

1. a cardinal number, 10 times 7.
2. a symbol for this number, as 70 or LXX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. seventies, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like from 70 through 79, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature:
5. the Seventy, the body of scholars who produced the Septuagint.
6. a cardinal number, 10 times 7.
7. a symbol for this number, as 70 or LXX.
8. a set of this many persons or things.
9. seventies, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like from 70 through 79, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature:
10. the Seventy, the body of scholars who produced the Septuagint.

adjective

1. amounting to 70 in number.
2. amounting to 70 in number.

Origin of seventies

1150-1200; Middle English; Old English seofontig. See seven, -ty¹

Examples for seventies

If we fail, there must be a retreat westwards at least seventy miles.

seventy years ago the fate of Europe was decided in a few bloody hours on the beaches of Normandy.

I guessed that he was probably seventy, though he might as easily be much younger.

seventy years ago, a little girl was buried alive by a German missile.

seventy percent of Hispanic Americans reported being very or somewhat concerned about climate change, and 57 percent of blacks.

But she would forgive him seventy times seven because he is her husband.

seventy percent of these went to British, Irish, and Germans.

seventy three percent of students at David Douglas High School in Portland, Oregon are low-income.

Our whole passage was stormy, and lasted seventy days, as near as I can recollect.

"Four francs seventy," said Temple through the shout of laughter.

The Rizzoli in New York City was no ordinary bookstore in its seventies heyday.

And I am glad to say that its seventies have never been applied to me.

One or two more we've got that were grey-headed in the seventies.

Until the seventies, women here were free to wear almost whatever they wanted.

A friend of mine says that the problem with Argentina is that we missed the seventies.

That generation was killed by the dictatorship here in the seventies.

It was in the late 'seventies, I think, that I first saw Mr. Morley.

Throughout the 'seventies the landlord class was in undisturbed supremacy.

It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day.

Francis is well into his seventies, looks it, has a mild demeanor and soft speaking style; but his rhetoric is electrifying.