seventies

Other forms of seventies

plural

seventieses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about seventies

What does seventies mean?

seventies means "the decade from 1970 to 1979". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seventies?

seventies has 3 syllables: sev-en-ties. The stress falls on "sev". In IPA it is /ˈsɛvəntiz/.

What is another word for seventies?

Close synonyms include 1970s, mid-seventies. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seventies a common word?

seventies is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.