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nonagenarian
Meaning: a person who is between ninety and ninety-nine years old
nonagenarian in a sentence
How nonagenarian is used in real sentences:
My great-grandmother, a spirited nonagenarian, still plays cards with her friends every Friday.
Reporters were surprised that the marathon's oldest finisher was a nonagenarian who walked the entire course using only a wooden cane.
“Her first consultant, a nonagenarian named Ruth Alvarez, had recently celebrated her ninety-fourth birthday and remembered how three generations addressed neighbors and supervisors.”
— from the passage Voices Across Generations
Synonyms for nonagenarian
Other words for nonagenarian — ninety-year-old — carry the same meaning.
- ninety-year-old
Where it comes from
From Latin nonaginta 'ninety'
Word parts
- nona — nine
nonagenarian: nona- (nine, as ninety) + genarian (years of age)
Memory hook
NONA (ninety) + GENARIAN — someone who has lived ninety years.
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