nonagenarian

[ non-uh-juh-nair-ee-uhn, noh-nuh- ]

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adjective

nonagenarian

/ ˌnəʊnədʒɪˈnɛərɪən /

1795–1805; < Latin nōnāgēnāri ( us ) containing ninety, consisting of ninety ( nōnāgēn ( ī ) ninety each + -ārius -ary ) + -an

C19: from Latin nōnāgēnārius, from nōnāginta ninety

Many a young man of to-day has done more and felt more than a peaceful, stationary nonagenarian of yesterday's rural life.

Biographical sketches of every Tennessee nonagenarian and centenarian Negro.

It is not hard to understand the feeling, never less called for than it was in the case of that beloved nonagenarian.

In that year died the nonagenarian Antonius Stradivarius, the greatest violin-maker the world has ever seen.

I received a postal card the other day from Clay, who is now a nonagenarian, in his armed castle in Kentucky.

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