Seventy \Sev"en*ty\, n.; pl. {Seventies}. 1. The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects. 2. A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx. {The Seventy}, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See {Septuagint}.
seventies n 1: the decade from 1970 to 1979 [syn: {1970s}] 2: the time of life between 70 and 80 [syn: {mid-seventies}]