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sexagenarian


sex·a·ge·nar·i·an

noun \ˌsek-sə-jə-ˈner-ē-ən\

Definition of SEXAGENARIAN

: a person whose age is in the sixties
— sexagenarian adjective
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Origin of SEXAGENARIAN

Latin sexagenarius of or containing sixty, sixty years old, from sexageni sixty each, from sexaginta sixty, from sex six + -ginta (akin to Latin viginti twenty) — more at six, vigesimal
First Known Use: 1738

Rhymes with SEXAGENARIAN

abecedarian, Austro-Hungarian, authoritarian, communitarian, disciplinarian, documentarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, majoritarian, nonagenarian, octogenarian, parliamentarian, postmillenarian, premillenarian, predestinarian, totalitarian, utilitarian, veterinarian

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