Dictionary

octogenarian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌɒktəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌɑktəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin octōgēnārius + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French octogénaire, from Latin octōgēnus (“80 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from octōgintā (“eight tens, 80”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or related to eightysomethings.

Coordinates

supercentenarian · quadragenarian · vicenarian · nonagenarian · septuagenarian · semicentenarian · tricenarian · semisupercentenarian · quinquagenarian · sexagenarian · hexagenarian · centenarian

Synonyms

octogenary

Translations (15)

hu nyolcvanas (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · hu nyolcvanadik születésnapját betöltött (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · pt octogenário (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · de achtzigjährig (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · hu nyolcvanas (éveiben járó) (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · he גְּבוּרוֹת (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · ca octogenari (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · pt octogenária (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · non áttrœðr (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · hu nyolcvanvalahány éves (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · pt oitentão (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · ceb oktohenariyo (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · fi kahdeksissakymmenissä oleva (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · fr octogénaire (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age) · fi kahdeksankymppinen (Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age)

octogenarian en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɒktəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌɑktəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin octōgēnārius + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French octogénaire, from Latin octōgēnus (“80 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from octōgintā (“eight tens, 80”).

Meanings

1. Synonym of eightysomething: a person between 80 and 89 years old.
   • Finsbury Park station, one of the most important L.N.E.R. suburban junctions, is now an octogenarian. 1941 October, “Notes and News: Finsbury Park Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 466:
   • First up for recriminations may be President Biden. What if the octogenarian had stuck to his original suggestion that he’d be a “bridge” president – i.e., a one-termer – and announced he wouldn’t run for a second term early last year, allowing for a proper primary competition among the next generation of Democratic leaders? 2024 November 6, Linda Feldmann, “What Trump’s historic victory says about America”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
   • 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. 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 75f; emphasis in original)
   • To 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 standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work. 1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar, page 13:

Forms

Deriveds

octogenarianism

Synonyms

eightysomething