adjective
- of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
noun
- a septuagenarian person.
noun
- a person who is from 70 to 79 years old
adjective
- being between 70 and 79 years old
- of or relating to a septuagenarian
adj.“of age 70, seventy-year-old,” 1793, from Latin septuagenarius “containing seventy,” from septuageni “seventy each,” related to septuaginta “seventy” (see Septuagint). Noun meaning “a 70-year-old person” first recorded 1805. As an adjective, septuagenary is recorded from c.1600.