septuagenarian

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin septuagenarius ("of the number seventy"), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin septuāginta ("seventy") +‎ -an

Adjective

septuagenarian (not comparable)

1. Being between the age of 70 and 79, inclusive. In one's eighth decade.
2. Of or relating to a septuagenarian.

Translations

in one's eighth decade

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• Hungarian: hetvenes éveiben járó, hetvenvalahány éves, hetvenedik születésnapját betöltött
• Swedish: sjuttioårig (sv)

Noun

septuagenarian (plural septuagenarians)

1. One who is between the age of 70 and 79, inclusive.
   • 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, ‎Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic

     For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]

Coordinate terms

• vicenarian
• tricenarian
• quadragenarian
• quinquagenarian
• sexagenarian
• octogenarian
• nonagenarian
• centenarian

Translations

One who is between the age of 70 and 79

• Czech: sedmdesátník m
• French: septuagénaire (fr)
• German: Siebzigjährige f, Siebzigjähriger m
• Hungarian: hetvenes
• Italian: settuagenario (it) m
• Latin: septuagenarius
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syttiåring m

• Polish: siedemdziesięciolatek (pl) m, siedemdziesięciolatka (pl) f
• Swedish: sjuttioåring (sv) c
• Tagalog: pipitumpuin