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What is a Quinquagenarian?
: fifty years old : characteristic of a person of such an age. quinquagenarian.
What do you call a person between 50 and 59?
A quinquagenarian is someone in their 50s (50 to 59 years old), or someone who is 50 years old.
What does Quadragenarian mean?
: a person who is 40 or more and less than 50 years old. quadragenarian. adjective. Definition of quadragenarian (Entry 2 of 2) : 40 or between 40 and 50 years old.
What is a person in their 70s called?
: a person whose age is in the seventies.
What does Canicide mean?
The killing of a dog
(rare) The killing of a dog. noun.
What do you call a person between the ages of 60 and 69?
A sexagenarian is someone in their 60s (60 to 69 years old), or someone who is 60 years old. Sexagenarian can also be used as an adjective to describe someone in their 60s, as in Our audience is mostly made up of sexagenarian women, or things related to such a person, as in I have entered my sexagenarian years.
Is 60 years old considered a senior citizen?
Senior citizen: Variably defined as an elderly or retired person, this term generally refers to someone who is at least 60 or 65 years of age. Some people consider “senior citizen” to be a patronizing term. Elderly: Being in an advanced stage of life, well beyond middle age, is the basic elderly definition.
Is 60 old for a man?
In America, one researcher found that you are considered old at 70 to 71 years of age for men and 73 to 73 for women. In China, the retirement age is 60 for men and 50 for female workers, or for female civil servants, 55.
What do you call a person in their sixties?
A person in their sixties is called sexagenarian, from the Latin word sextus, meaning six. What famous person was born in the sixties? Dr. Dre (Feb. 18, 1965
What do you call a person in their 20’s?
There are different words for people in each decade of age: A person between 10 and 19 years old is called a denarian. A person between 20 and 29 is called a vicenarian. A person between 30 and 39 is called a tricenarian.
What do you call a person in their 50’s?
A person between 50 and 59 is called a quinquagenarian. A person between 60 and 69 is called a sexagenarian. A person between 70 and 79 is called a septuagenarian. A person between 80 and 89 is called an octogenarian.
What do you call a 90 year old person?
A person between 70 and 79 is called a septuagenarian. A person between 80 and 89 is called an octogenarian. A person between 90 and 99 is called a nonagenarian. A person between 100 and 109 is called a centenarian. A person 110 years old or older is called a supercentenarian.