[
US
/sɛpˌtʃuədʒəˈnɛɹiən/
]
[ UK /sˌɛptjuːeɪdʒnˈeəɹiən/ ]
[ UK /sˌɛptjuːeɪdʒnˈeəɹiən/ ]
NOUN
- someone whose age is in the seventies
How To Use septuagenarian In A Sentence
- He loves football with the childish wonder of a septuagenarian World Cup winner. Times, Sunday Times
- Speaking from her Oxford home, the septuagenarian is lustily draining a vodka and melon cocktail whilst voicing her hopes for the book.
- Both men are septuagenarians who have felt the pinch of ageism in a business that often dismisses extensive experience and talent as irrelevant.
- Setting sail into the wider world of fiction, he evokes a place in which missed opportunities come around again on life's conveyor belt - even to septuagenarians undergoing amputation of gangrenous limbs.
- A septuagenarian performed the Ganesha dance with all its divine appeal.
- The documentary follows the white-haired septuagenarian from his garden in North Carolina, to hip-hop shows in San Francisco, to visits with music pioneers in New York City and Long Island.
- At 75, he is teaching music - both to septuagenarians and tiny tots - and is enjoying it.
- And the film, as it turns out, is a touching, beautifully told story about two septuagenarians who, 50 years after their adolescent romance, bump into each other once more and fall in love all over again.
- But then he tried to dupe a club of septuagenarian ballroom dancers - who had already seen Borat. Times, Sunday Times
- The danger that elections might return a fragmented coalition is less than the danger of retaining this septuagenarian. Times, Sunday Times