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quintagenarian

quintagenarian noun: one who is between the ages of 50 and 59, inclusive.

Noun

quintagenarian (plural quintagenarians)

  1. One who is between the ages of 50 and 59, inclusive.
    • That would be bad enough, God knows! but what is it to finding yourself in an infernal "fix," at a dinner-table, with a literary quintagenarian at your elbow […]1852, William Hamilton Maxwell, Highlands and Islands

Forms of quintagenarian

pluralquintagenarians

Origin of quintagenarian

Latin

Questions about quintagenarian

What does quintagenarian mean?
Quintagenarian means one who is between the ages of 50 and 59, inclusive.
What part of speech is quintagenarian?
Quintagenarian is a noun.
What is the plural of quintagenarian?
The plural of quintagenarian is quintagenarians.

Words near quintagenarian in the dictionary

  1. quintadenas
  2. quintadene
  3. quintadenes
  4. quintades
  5. quintads
  6. quintagenarian
  7. quintagenarians
  8. Quintaglie
  9. quintagon
  10. quintagons
  11. quintain

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