1970S

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 1970s mean? 

• 1970S (noun)
  The noun 1970S has 1 sense:

1. the decade from 1970 to 1979

  Familiarity information: 1970S used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 1970S (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1970 to 1979

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1970s; seventies

Hypernyms ("1970s" is a kind of...):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)

 Context examples 

NASA scientists first suspected an ocean in Ganymede in the 1970s, based on models of the large moon, which is bigger than Mercury.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

Polystyrene has been routinely detected in the world's oceans since the 1970s.

(Sunlight degrades polystyrene faster than expected, National Science Foundation)

Origin: An outbred stock of fawn hooded rats introduced into Europe by Tschopp in the early 1970s.

(FHH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

The Local Bubble was discovered gradually in the 1970s and 1980s.

(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)

The unified theory of active, supermassive black holes, first developed in the late 1970s, was created to explain why black holes, though similar in nature, can look completely different.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

In the 1970s, phosphine was discovered in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn—immensely hot gas giants.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Large fault scarps on Mercury were first discovered in the flybys of Mariner 10 in the mid-1970s and confirmed by MESSENGER, which found the planet closest to the sun was shrinking.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

The WMO says the overall long-term warming trend since the late 1970s is worrying and cannot be ignored.

(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)