seventy

American  

[sev-uhn-tee] / ˈsɛv ən ti /

noun

seventies plural

1. a cardinal number, 10 times 7.

2. a symbol for this number, as 70 or LXX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

4. seventies, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like from 70 through 79, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature.

   They live in the Seventies. His uncle is in his early seventies. It was in the seventies yesterday.

5. the Seventy, the body of scholars who produced the Septuagint.

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adjective

1. amounting to 70 in number.

seventy British  

/ ˈsɛvəntɪ /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven See also number

2. a numeral, 70, LXX, etc, representing this number

3. (plural) the numbers 70–79, esp the 70th to the 79th year of a person's life or of a particular century

4. the amount or quantity that is seven times as big as ten

5. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 70 units

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determiner

1. 1. amounting to seventy

      the seventy varieties of fabric

   2. ( as pronoun )

      to invite seventy to the wedding

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• seventies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of seventy

1150–1200; Middle English; Old English seofontig. See seven, -ty ¹

Example Sentences

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seventy seventies

"It was a wonderful moment," even if seventy percent of the people there were strangers, Michael told Israel's Channel 13.

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

This is still well short of the previous longest wet spell in Cardinham of seventy two days recorded in 2000.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Among the seventy invitees were Farah Diba Pahlavi, widow of Iran’s last shah, former French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand, and a scattering of aristocrats and artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

The application of boron in organic chemistry dates back some seventy years and was awarded a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

He crouched down in preparation, and then, from hops seventy through seventy-six, he rose up in the air just as she did and landed at the same time too.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

When the time finally came, they devised a brightly coloured world filled with seventies stylings.

From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026

Sure, but consider why today isn’t like the seventies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

The album was “Transference,” its cover a grainy seventies tableau — a boy slinking low in a golden wingback chair, viridian curtains pooling behind him, a table lamp casting an almost aggressively orange glow.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025

On Sunday, Magnum's chief executive Peter ter Kulve told the Financial Times the Ben & Jerry's founders were in their seventies and "at a certain moment they need to hand over to a new generation".

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

He turned the radio on and hummed to old songs from the seventies, snapping his fingers, and sometimes even singing some of the words.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds