Definition of "1870s" []

• The decade from 1870 to 1879 (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The average since the 1870s is about 14 (which is the same as an E/P of seven percent)."
• "Fortunata and Jacinta are two women in 1870s Madrid who both love Juanito Santa Cruz, the scion of a dynasty of clothing magnates; Fortunata is working class and bears him a child; Jacinta, his cousin, marries him by a family arrangement which becomes largely a love match."
• "There are also interesting pictures by journeymen who made a living taking these sorts of images, and several by the prolific Anonymous taken in the 1870s from the tower of the still-uncompleted Brooklyn Bridge, the highest point in the city before man achieved flight."