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[edit]- (of the decade) 'seventies
Noun
[edit]seventies
Noun
[edit]seventies pl (plural only)
- The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
- 1914, Amherst College, Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, volume 4, page 6:
- Our readers — and contributors — are apt to elect a good deal according to years. The seventies and eighties, we may suppose, are concerned for the large educational and cultural interests of their Alma Mater; the nineties are deep in the practical and business activities; the noughties are not naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest.
- 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
- 'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length.
- The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 70 and 79.
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[edit]the decade of the 1970s
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[edit]seventies (not comparable)
- From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).
- I know the theme of the school dance is "The 1970s" but is covering the walls, floor, and ceiling with tie-dye too seventies?
- 2011, John Covach, “The Hippie Aesthetic: Cultural Positioning and Musical Ambition in Early Progressive Rock”, in Mark Spicer, editor, Rock Music, Routledge, , →ISBN, page 65:
- Among rock critics and journalists, there is an overwhelming bias to view the late sixties in a positive light and seventies music as an unfortunate decline into commercialism at the expense of musical authenticity.