septuagenarian
IPA: sɛptʃuʌdʒʌnˈɛriʌn
noun
- Synonym of seventysomething: a person between 70 and 79 years old.
adjective
- Of or related to seventysomethings.
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Examples of "septuagenarian" in Sentences
- The septuagenarian was diagnosed with Alzheimer's about a year ago and set about recording one last album.
- First seen shadow-boxing in his dressing gown, he captures perfectly the sleek vanity of this septuagenarian overlord.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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 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 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.
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