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septuagenarian
[ sep-choo-uh-juh-nair-ee-uhn, -too-, -tyoo- ]
adjective
- of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
noun
- a septuagenarian person.
septuagenarian
/ ˌsɛptjʊədʒɪˈnɛərɪən /
noun
- a person who is from 70 to 79 years old
adjective
- being between 70 and 79 years old
- of or relating to a septuagenarian
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Origin of septuagenarian1
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Example Sentences
The septuagenarian duo of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will be able to keep their chauffer-driven, taxpayer-funded limos.
The septuagenarian was present during the search, according to the report.
Andrew Romano sends the septuagenarian Stone a birthday wish.
When you give an underfunded septuagenarian four out of 10 votes in a moderate state, something is most definitely wrong.
The libertarian septuagenarian outpaced Huntsman, Gingrich, and Iowa flash-in-the-pan Rick Santorum.
A stalwart six-foot septuagenarian does not thus comport himself toward a small gentleman of thirty or forty.
He had before him the operatic universe; and it was to arouse this that he sat him down to write when almost a septuagenarian.
It was the Bacchic priest, a good-humoured septuagenarian, who had pinched the bare elbow of a comely Bacchante.
He tells, too, of a Fondue party he threw for a couple of his septuagenarian cousins in Paris "about the year 1801."
It was the septuagenarian bishop Purpuris, 273 recalled from exile by Julian.
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