SEVENTY


Meaning of SEVENTY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ sev(ə)nti ]

( seventies)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

Seventy is the number 70.

Seventy people were killed.

NUM

2.

When you talk about the seventies , you are referring to numbers between 70 and 79. For example, if you are in your seventies , you are aged between 70 and 79. If the temperature is in the seventies , it is between 70 and 79.

It’s a long way to go for two people in their seventies.

N-PLURAL

3.

The seventies is the decade between 1970 and 1979.

In the late Seventies, things had to be new, modern, revolutionary.

N-PLURAL : the N

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