octogenarian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French octogénaire (from Latin octōgēnārius (“containing eighty”), from octōgintā (“eighty”)) + -ian.
Adjective[edit]
octogenarian (not comparable)
- being between the age of 80 and 89, inclusive
- Coordinate terms: vicenarian, tricenarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, hexagenerian, sexagenarian, septuagenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian
- of or relating to an octogenarian
Translations[edit]
being between 80 and 89, inclusive
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Noun[edit]
octogenarian (plural octogenarians)
- One who is between the age of eighty and eighty-nine, inclusive.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 75f; emphasis in original):
- Mama was by no means the only grandma present, for the octogenarians had turned out en masse from their huts and lean-tos and were paddling about, diving and splashing as unconcernedly as though they really belonged in the sea rather than on land.
- 1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar (page 13)
- To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 75f; emphasis in original):
Translations[edit]
One who is between the age of 80 and 89, inclusive
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