octogenarian
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1VERB + OCTOGENARIAN
am, become
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noun
Synonym of eightysomething: a person between 80 and 89 years old.
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.
Finsbury Park station, one of the most important L.N.E.R. suburban junctions, is now an octogenarian.
adj
Of or related to eightysomethings.
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6Mama 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
WiktionaryFinsbury Park station, one of the most important L.N.E.R. suburban junctions, is now an octogenarian.
WiktionaryTo 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 stand
WiktionaryTom is an octogenarian.
Tatoeba · #2272955Apparently once you become an octogenarian you can say what you like and get away with it. I can't wait to turn eighty.
Tatoeba · #3570963Mary is an octogenarian.
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