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单词 septuagenarian
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septuagenarianadj.n.

Brit. /ˌsɛptjʊədʒᵻˈnɛːrɪən/, /ˌsɛptʃ(ʊ)ədʒᵻˈnɛːrɪən/, U.S. /ˌsɛptə(wə)dʒəˈnɛriən/, /ˌsɛptʃə(wə)dʒəˈnɛriən/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin septuāgēnārius , -an suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin septuāgēnārius septuagenary adj. + -an suffix. Compare earlier septuagenary adj. With use as noun compare septuagenary n.
A. adj.
1. septuagenarian number: the number seventy. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventy
seventyc1175
septuagenarian number1715
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 96 All the learned Churches in Christendom..unquestionably believ'd it [sc. the Septuagint] to have been perform'd by the same Septuagenarian and Binary number (for the Translators are reckon'd to have been 72 Elders of the Jews).
2. Aged between seventy and seventy-nine years (inclusive); (also) characteristic of or belonging to a person who is aged between seventy and seventy-nine years.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age
seven?1440
yearing1451
year-old1556
yeared1583
seventy1590
two-year1596
quinquagenarian1603
septuagenary1605
twelvea1616
thirty1618
three-yearling1621
one-eared1645
quadragenarious1656
trimenstruous1656
septennian1662
sexagenarian1663
sexagenary1663
octogenarya1696
seven-year-old1713
quinquagenary1715
yearling1729
septuagesimal1781
septuagenarian1793
octogenarian1818
fortyish1821
seventeen-year-old1821
three-year-old1825
week-old1826
centenarian1828
day-old1831
70-year-old1832
quadragenarian1834
century-old1836
nonagenarian1877
teenaged1913
thirtyish1925
1793 R. Graves Reveries of Solitude 57 We behold septuagenarian beaux and beauties of the last age inattentive to the depredations of time.
1853 T. Bell Rural Album Pref. p. viii The Author desires to express his liveliest gratitude to the Nobility..who have so liberally patronized his septuagenarian efforts at authorship.
1883 Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 441 Our septuagenarian premier continually makes us forget his years.
1933 S. Walker Night Club Era 175 The District Attorney at the beginning of the New Deal was Thomas C. T. Crain, the gentle, septuagenarian Sachem of Tammany Hall.
2011 D. Maysilles Ducktown Smoke Introd. 3 A septuagenarian farmer with a little spread in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Fannin County, Georgia.
B. n.
A person who is between seventy and seventy-nine years old (inclusive); a person aged seventy.
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the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun]
one-year-old?1609
cinquanter1611
sexagenariana1646
septuagene1657
quintagenarian1687
threescore1721
septuagenarian1744
centenarian1747
seven-year-old1762
septuagenary1792
centenary1800
nonagenarian1804
sexagenary1814
octogenarian1815
nine-year-old1828
octogenary1828
semi-centenarian1828
quinquagenarian1830
quadragenarian1839
seventeen-year-old1858
70-year-old1870
twenty-firster1912
1744 Universal Spectator 9 June We have a Son of this Juvenile Septuagenarian also belonging to our Club, who is as healthy and chearful as most other Men of thirty-five.
a1788 N. Cotton Var. Pieces Verse & Prose (1791) II. 175 Having thus transcended the longevity of a septuagenarian, I now labour under the inconveniences and evils of advanced years.
1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life III. ii. 23 Landor..although..a septuagenarian..was in the full vigour of his understanding.
1948 H. Brean Wilders walk Away (1962) ii. 22 Aunt Mary was a thin, spry septuagenarian with white hair.
2010 Jewish Chron. 15 Oct. 32/1 The tall, Philadelphia-born septuagenarian cuts a youthful figure in a green bomber jacket and Castro-style army cap.

Derivatives

ˌseptuageˈnarianism n. rare the state of being a septuagenarian.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age
yearOE
scorea1400
seventeena1568
threescorea1616
jubileea1640
military age1656
legal age1658
tecnogoniaa1676
sixty1717
forty1732
fifty1738
seven-year-old1762
teen1789
septuagenarianism1824
sexagenarianism1824
day-old1831
seventeen-year-old1858
centenarianism1863
roaring forties1867
twenties1874
leaving age1875
school-leaving age1881
octogenarianism1883
reading age1906
three1909
teenage1912
eleven-plus1937
1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 532 In the plentitude of septuagenarianism.
2015 D. Kinney Dylanologists (new ed.) i. 29 As the revelers at Zimmy's ushered in [Bob] Dylan's septuagenarianism, Bill had a new acquisition on his mind.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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