different between eighties vs seventies

English

Alternative forms

• (of the decade) 'eighties

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?tiz

Noun

eighties

1. plural of eighty

eighties pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
   • 1919, Harry Hamilton Johnston, The Gay-Dombeys: A Novel, Macmillan, page 172,

     He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the 'eighties, 'nineties, and 'oughts.

2. The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 80 and 89.

Synonyms

• '80s, 80s

Hyponyms

• 1880s, 1980s

Translations

See also

• octogenarian

Adjective

eighties (not comparable)

1. From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).

   Sue picked a playlist of eighties music for the dinner to remind her wife of that night they met all those years ago.

English

Alternative forms

• (of the decade) 'seventies

Noun

seventies

1. plural of seventy

seventies pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
2. The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.
3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 70 and 79.

Synonyms

• 1970s, '70s, 70s

Translations

See also

• septuagenarian

Adjective

seventies (not comparable)

1. From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).

   I know the theme of the school dance is "The 1970s" but is covering the walls, floor, and ceiling with tie-dye too seventies?

   • John Covach (2011) , “The Hippie Aesthetic: Cultural Positioning and Musical Ambition in Early Progressive Rock”, in Mark Spicer, editor, Rock Music, Routledge, DOI:10.4324/9781315088631-4, ?ISBN, page 65: “Among rock critics and journalists, there is an overwhelming bias to view the late sixties in a positive light and seventies music as an unfortunate decline into commercialism at the expense of musical authenticity.”

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