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Definition of Sexagenarian
1. Adjective. Being from 60 to 69 years old. "The sexagenarian population is growing"
2. Noun. Someone whose age is in the sixties.
Definition of Sexagenarian
1. n. A person who is sixty years old.
Definition of Sexagenarian
1. Adjective. Being between the age of 60 and 69, inclusive. In one's seventh decade. ¹
2. Noun. A person who is 60 years old or between the ages of 60 and 69. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sexagenarian
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Literary usage of Sexagenarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859)
"... THE sexagenarian. Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are
written down old, with all the characters of age ? ..."
2. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1880)
"The Juvenile sexagenarian*. [This letter is addressed to the subject of the
preceding one.] ' Sidonius wishes health to his friend ..."
3. Latter struggles in the journey of life; or, The afternoon of my days by George Miller (1833)
"Certain matters, in which, the sexagenarian conceived, that he might be ...
More extensive attempts of the sexagenarian to be useful in the way and ex- ..."
4. Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848)
"... THE sexagenarian. Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are
written down old, with all the characters of age ? ..."
5. Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848)
"... THE sexagenarian. Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are
written down old, with all the characters of age ? ..."
6. Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1893)
"... THE sexagenarian Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are
written down old, with all the characters of age ? Have you not a moist eye, ..."
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