septuagenarian

[ sep-choo-uh-juh-nair-ee-uh n, -too-, -tyoo- ]

/ ˌsɛp tʃu ə dʒəˈnɛər i ən, -tu-, -tyu- /

of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.

a septuagenarian person.

Origin of septuagenarian

1705–15; < Latin septuāgēnāri(us) (see septuagenary) + -an

The septuagenarian duo of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will be able to keep their chauffer-driven, taxpayer-funded limos.

With Immigration Move, Obama and the Welfare Party Strike Again |Lloyd Green |November 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The septuagenarian was present during the search, according to the report.

Burundi’s Black Market Skull Trade |Margot Kiser |January 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Andrew Romano sends the septuagenarian Stone a birthday wish.

Is Mick Jagger Too Old to Rock? |Andrew Romano |July 26, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The experience left the septuagenarian designer sounding positively gob-smacked.

Armani Goes Gaga: Giorgio Armani Intoxicated by Lady Gaga |Robin Givhan |February 6, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

The first case submitted was that of a septuagenarian, burnt some years before.

A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 |Henry Charles Lea
He had before him the operatic universe; and it was to arouse this that he sat him down to write when almost a septuagenarian.

Verdi: Man and Musician |Frederick James Crowest
I have followed the septuagenarian of literature step by step, and reported the progress of his disintegration.

Look Back on Happiness |Knut Hamsun
David told him that he dressed himself like a septuagenarian Professor.

The Dop Doctor |Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
It was the septuagenarian bishop Purpuris, 273 recalled from exile by Julian.

The Death of the Gods |Dmitri Mrejkowski

septuagenarian

/ (ˌsɛptjʊədʒɪˈnɛərɪən) /

a person who is from 70 to 79 years old

being between 70 and 79 years old

of or relating to a septuagenarian

C18: from Latin septuāgēnārius, from septuāgēnī seventy each, from septuāgintā seventy