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septuagenarian

[ sep-choo-uh-juh-nair-ee-uhn, -too-, -tyoo- ]

adjective

  1. of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.


noun

  1. a septuagenarian person.

septuagenarian

/ ˌsɛptjʊədʒɪˈnɛərɪən /

noun

  1. a person who is from 70 to 79 years old


adjective

  1. being between 70 and 79 years old
  2. of or relating to a septuagenarian

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Word History and Origins

Origin of septuagenarian1

1705–15; < Latin septuāgēnāri ( us ) ( septuagenary ) + -an

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Word History and Origins

Origin of septuagenarian1

C18: from Latin septuāgēnārius, from septuāgēnī seventy each, from septuāgintā seventy

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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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