eightysomething
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From eighty + -something.
Numeral
[edit]eightysomething
- (colloquial) An indeterminate value between 80 (inclusive) and 90 (exclusive).
- Coordinate terms: twentysomething, thirtysomething, fortysomething, fiftysomething, sixtysomething, seventysomething, ninetysomething, hundredsomething
- 2006, Laura Levine, The PMS Murder, page 52:
- There in the doorway stood an eightysomething Las Vegas showgirl.
Noun
[edit]eightysomething (plural eightysomethings)
- (colloquial) A person between 80 and 89 years old.
- She was a sprightly eightysomething.
- 2011, Mark Lachs, M.D., chapter 3, in What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older:
- Instead of twentysomethings with one rare but curable disease, they find eightysomethings with many common chronic diseases that aren't curable.
- 2012, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, page 429:
- Aunt Zena and Uncle Bill Druss are the coolest eightysomethings I know of, and I will gladly eat the early bird special or visit Sawgrass Mills with them anytime.
Synonyms
[edit]- octogenarian; octogenary (obsolete)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- teen, teenager (13–19)
- vicenarian (20–29)
- twentysomething (20–29)
- tricenarian (30–39)
- thirtysomething (30–39)
- quadragenarian (40–49)
- fortysomething (40–49)
- quinquagenarian (50–59)
- semicentenarian (50–59)
- fiftysomething (50–59)
- sexagenarian (60–69)
- sixtysomething (60–69)
- septuagenarian (70–79)
- seventysomething (70–79)
- nonagenarian (90–99)
- ninetysomething (90–99)
- centenarian (100–199)
- semisupercentenarian (105–109)
- supercentenarian (110+)
Translations
[edit]a person between the ages of 80 and 89
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