septuagenarian
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English
Etymology
From Latin septuagenarius (“containing 70”) + -an (“forming adjectives and representative nouns”), either directly or via French septuagénaire, from Latin septuagenus (“70 each”) + -arius (“-ary”), from Latin septuāginta (“seven tens, 70”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌsɛptəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/, /ˌsɛptəwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/, /ˌsɛpt͡ʃəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/, /ˌsɛpt͡ʃəwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌsɛptjʊəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/, /ˌsɛptʃəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/, /ˌsɛptʃʊəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
septuagenarian (plural septuagenarians)
- Synonym of seventysomething: a person between 70 and 79 years old.
- 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: […]
- 1994, “New Age Girl”, in A Different Story, performed by Deadeye Dick:
- Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian.
Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon.
Mary Moon, who will outlive all the septuagenarians.
Adjective
septuagenarian (not comparable)
- Of or related to seventysomethings.
- Coordinate terms: vicenarian, tricenarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, semicentenarian, hexagenarian, sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, supercentenarian
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References
- “septuagenarian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
