Seventies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seventy \Sev"en*ty\, n.; pl. {Seventies}.
     1. The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
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     2. A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
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     {The Seventy}, the translators of the Greek version of the
        Old Testament called the Septuagint. See {Septuagint}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seventies
       n 1: the decade from 1970 to 1979 [syn: {1970s}]
       2: the time of life between 70 and 80 [syn: {mid-seventies}]