SEVENTIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seventies mean? 

• SEVENTIES (noun)
  The noun SEVENTIES has 2 senses:

1. the decade from 1970 to 1979

2. the time of life between 70 and 80

  Familiarity information: SEVENTIES used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENTIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1970 to 1979

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1970s; seventies

Hypernyms ("seventies" is a kind of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

The time of life between 70 and 80

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

mid-seventies; seventies

Hypernyms ("seventies" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Holonyms ("seventies" is a part of...):

age; eld; geezerhood; old age; years (a late time of life)

 Context examples 

Neither had I so soon learned the gratitude of courtiers, to persuade myself, that his majesty’s present seventies acquitted me of all past obligations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)