Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Seventies"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seventy \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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
seventies
n 1: the decade from 1970 to 1979 [syn: {1970s}]
2: the time of life between 70 and 80 [syn: {mid-seventies}]
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