1970s

English

Alternative forms

• 1970's

Noun

1970s pl (plural only)

1. The decade beginning in 1970 and ending in 1979.
   • 2007 August 20, Douglas Martin, “Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Well before the mid-1970s, when digitalization ended the tone-based system, Joybubbles had stopped stealing calls.

   • 2008 January 14, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     The production on “Liverpool 8” has the heft and definition of modern multitracking, resembling Mr. Starr’s early-1970s hits rather than the Beatles themselves.

   • 2008, Robert Jellison, William D. Williams, Brian Timms, Javier Alcocer, Nikolay V. Aladin, “Salt lakes: values, threats and future”, in Nicholas V. C. Polunin, editor, Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects‎^[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99, column 2:

     On the Alxa Plateau of Inner Mongolia, Gaxun Nur Lake (262 km²) dried in the 1970s and the Sogo Nur Lake in the 1980s.

   • 2012, Ruth Cherrington, Not Just Beer and Bingo! a Social History of Working Men's Clubs, →ISBN, page 95:

     Sandra used to be a regular club-goer with her husband and two young sons in the 1970s.

   • 2017, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 19:

     The sysprogs of the 1970s and early '80s also tended the mainframe as it shook and rattled incongruously on the edge of Dartmouth's Colonial campus.

Synonyms

• '70s, 70s, seventies, Me Decade

Translations

the decade from 1970 to 1979 — see seventies

See also

decades in English (edit)

Anagrams

• 1790s