Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being between 80 and 90 years of age.
- noun A person between 80 and 90 years of age.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eighty years of age; also, between eighty and ninety years of age.
- noun A person eighty or eighty-odd years of age.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person eighty years, or more, of age.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who is between the age of
eighty andeighty-nine , inclusive. - adjective Being between the age of 80 and 89, inclusive.
- adjective Of or relating to an octogenarian.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose age is in the eighties
- adjective being from 80 to 89 years old
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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According to local press reports, the police detained Mr. Touré, better known to young Senegalese protesters and the press by his stage name, Thiat, for comments he made during a large demonstration over the weekend in which he called the octogenarian Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, a liar and said he was too old to govern.
NYT > Home Page By J. DAVID GOODMAN 2011
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I wasn't sure the graying old lady could take it, particularly when a certain octogenarian came rolling to a stop near the mound.
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Obama consulted Brzezinski for advice during his campaign, calling the octogenarian Brzezinski “one of our most outstanding scholars and thinkers” and saying that he was “someone I have learned an immense amount from.”
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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Obama consulted Brzezinski for advice during his campaign, calling the octogenarian Brzezinski “one of our most outstanding scholars and thinkers” and saying that he was “someone I have learned an immense amount from.”
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the young revolution after the apparition of the old.
Les Miserables 2008
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Kirby: Her pseudo-marriage to the octogenarian was the worst kind of betrayal of the covenant.
Too sad to watch? Ann Althouse 2007
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Her pseudo-marriage to the octogenarian was the worst kind of betrayal of the covenant.
Too sad to watch? Ann Althouse 2007
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Her pseudo-marriage to the octogenarian was the worst kind of betrayal of the covenant.
Too sad to watch? Ann Althouse 2007
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Yesterday's term was fertile octogenarian, which is defined as:
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Yesterday's term was fertile octogenarian, which is defined as:
Define That Term #71 2006
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