The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Word-a-Day 2008 Calendar (Houghton Mifflin) 5/13/8: septuagenarian
septuagenarian n. A person who is 70 years old or between the ages of 70 and 80. adj. 1. Being 70 years old or between the ages of 70 and 80. 2. Of or relating to a septuagenarian.
DeadEye Dick has a song "Mary Moon" with the lines "she's a vegetarian / She will outlive all the septuagenarians" (though in the song lyric it's pronounced septagenarian). Wikipedia has an awesome list I'll link to and post here:
Ages can also be divided by decade:
- Denarian: someone between 10 and 19 years of age
- Vicenarian: someone between 20 and 29 years of age
- Tricenarian: someone between 30 and 39 years of age
- Quadragenarian: someone between 40 and 49 years of age
- Quinquagenarian: someone between 50 and 59 years of age
- Sexagenarian: someone between 60 and 69 years of age
- Septuagenarian: someone between 70 and 79 years of age
- Octogenarian: someone between 80 and 89 years of age
- Nonagenarian: someone between 90 and 99 years of age
- Centenarian: someone over 100 years of age
- Supercentenarian: someone over 110 years of age
Rating 10/10 vegetarians.
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