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