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adjective
1.
of the age of 60 years or between 60 and 70 years old.
noun
2.
a sexagenarian person.
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Sexagenarian
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So is dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. Does it mean:
| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S. |
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
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Word Origin & History
sexagenarian
1738, "person sixty years old," from L. sexagenarius "containing sixty," from L. sexagenarius, from sexageni "sixty each," from sex (see six).
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