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Septuagenarian   /sɛptʃˌuədʒənˈɛriən/   Listen
Septuagenarian

noun
1.
Someone whose age is in the seventies.





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"Septuagenarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... dismay the bent and feeble septuagenarian offered to lead off with myself as partner, at which I collapsed, for alas, I cannot dance. Then our trustee led the roars of laughter ...
— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes
... lazy afternoons and still lazier eventides, to gossip over the latest items of local news; conscious that as they are doing so their ancestors have done for many a generation, and that old as they may be themselves, in their septuagenarian or octogenarian states, they are as infants in comparison with the age of the stones and bricks and timbers about them, grey and fragrant with the antiquity of at least three ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher


Words linked to "Septuagenarian" :   oldster, senior citizen, golden ager, old person


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