单词 | septuagenarian |
释义 | septuagenarianadj.n. A. adj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.n.1715 |
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