Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who is 70 years old or between the ages of 70 and 80.
- adj. Being 70 years old or between the ages of 70 and 80.
- adj. Of or relating to a septuagenarian.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person seventy years of age, or between seventy and eighty.
Wiktionary
- adj. Being between the age of 70 and 79, inclusive. In one's eighth decade.
- adj. Of or relating to a septuagenarian.
- n. One who is between the age of 70 and 79, inclusive.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone whose age is in the seventies
Etymologies
- From Latin septuagenarius ("of the number seventy"), from Latin septuāginta ("seventy") + -an (Wiktionary)
- From Latin septuāgēnārius, of the number seventy, from septuāgēnī, seventy each, from septuāgintā, seventy; see Septuagint. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Wine he calls a septuagenarian, the letters of the Hebrew word for wine (_yayin_) representing seventy, and water a nonagenarian, because _mayim_ (water) represents ninety:”
“Does his reference to me as a "septuagenarian" imply that I am unqualified to state facts and undeserving to benefit from Social Security and Medicare that I pay for with "earned income?”
“Mr. Dupnik's rhetoric stands in sharp contrast to Arizona's other outspoken septuagenarian cop, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, about 100 miles northwest of here.”
The Wall Street Journal: Arizona Elicits Sheriff's Criticism
“First seen shadow-boxing in his dressing gown, he captures perfectly the sleek vanity of this septuagenarian overlord.”
“The billionaire leaders of industry had been the gods of the new India, people such as Anil Ambani, the head of mobile carrier Reliance Communications, who was voted MTV's youth icon in 2003, and the septuagenarian Ratan Tata, often seen as the embodiment of business with a social conscience.”
The Washington Post: India's mood darkens as corruption undermines nation's self-confidence
“The 20-part series will apparently see the septuagenarian peer roaming the UK to reunite people with footage of their ancestors, and touring not in a Dimbleby-style 4x4 gas guzzler but in "the UK's only surviving vintage mobile cinema, a converted 60s Bedford van".”
“The septuagenarian was diagnosed with Alzheimer's about a year ago and set about recording one last album.”
The Wall Street Journal: Troubadours, Technicians and Dixie Chickens
“When I grow up I am going to be a little old lady in tennis shoes," Mary Catherine Bateson, the septuagenarian writer and cultural anthropologist, told the audience at the TEDx Women conference held in New York City near the end of 2011.”
The Huffington Post: Wendy Gordon: The Longevity Revolution: Time to Get Out and Change Things
“And Ms. Harris gives only a nod to Woolf's friendship, in the early 1930s, with Ethel Smyth, the septuagenarian composer and leader of the women's suffrage movement.”
“During that brief mention, the septuagenarian sheriff mispronounced Angle's last name, calling her what sounded like "Sharron Anglund.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘septuagenarian’.
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
I'm tagging all words ...inapplicability, unsatisfactorily, heterogeneity, disintermediation, antiglobalization, telecommunication, interdisciplinary, meteorological, socioeconomic, intelligibility, autobiographical, industrialization and 423 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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akin
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“that which produces,â€
(Origin:
F -gène
Gk. genés 'born, produced';
L. genus, 'kin')mutagen, mutagenesis, pathogen, pathogenesis, progeny, mitogen, parthenogenesis, transgene, mucinogen, myogenic, autogenic, endogenous and 83 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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Wenderful's Whirled World of Blurred ...
Lexicon I likez... in no order whatsoever.
omnivalence, cerebration, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, rutabaga, septuagenarian, foible, vainglorious, leviathan, remunerative, catastrophize, ancillary and 182 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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spamdad's Words
lambic, weizenbock, bock, zymurgy, vade mecum, quotidian, sesquipedalian, eremite, sphragis, privation, aegis, sui generis and 275 more...
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InstantWordPower
sesquipedalian, optometrist, quadruped, biped, bimonthly, bifocal, bicuspid, bivalve, quadraphonic, quadruplet, quadruple, quadrilateral and 107 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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hannah's Words
perpetuity, portmanteau, scintillate, elucidate, surreptitious, reticulate, cavilling, laudatory, milquetoast, inimitable, schadenfreude, ancillary and 212 more...
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vespertine, mercurial, parochial, septuagenarian, occident, pansystemic, vilify, redemptive, pentatauch, machiavellian, digress, malapropos and 53 more...
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easily forgotten
parsimony, vicarious, egregious, intercalation, epiphyte, alexandrine, parturition, eldritch, coruscation, scintillation, sesquipedalian, penumbra and 23 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for septuagenarian.
recombinantdna As in Maude of 'Harold and Maude'. Jun 4, 2008