Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of seventy, especially of seventy years; pertaining to a person seventy or seventy odd years old.
- noun A septuagenarian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of
seventy ; seventy years old. - noun A
septuagenarian .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin septuagenarius, from septuageny seventy each; akin to septuaginta seventy, septem seven. See seven.
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Examples
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In Spain they, lock up all the ladies at night, even to the septuagenary femmes de chambre.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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In Spain they, lock up all the ladies at night, even to the septuagenary femmes de chambre.
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In Spain they, lock up all the ladies at night, even to the septuagenary femmes de chambre.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Charlotte-Elisabeth Orleans 1687
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In Spain they, lock up all the ladies at night, even to the septuagenary femmes de chambre.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 02 Charlotte-Elisabeth Orleans 1687
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