Crossword clues for nonagenarian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonagenarian \Non`a*ge*na"ri*an\, n. [L. nonagenarius containing, or consisting of, ninety, fr. nonageni ninety each; akin to novem nine.] A person ninety years old.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1776, coined in English with -an + Latin nonagenarius "containing ninety" (in Late Latin "someone ninety years old"), from nonagen "ninety each," related to nonaginta "the number ninety," from nonus "ninth" (see nones) + -genaria "ten times," from PIE *dkm-ta-, from *dekm- "ten" (see ten). As an adjective from 1893.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Being between the age of 90 and 99, inclusive. In one's tenth decade. 2 Of or relating to a nonagenarian. n. One who is between the age of 90 and 99, inclusive. One who is in his or her tenth decade.
WordNet
adj. being from 90 to 99 years old; "the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home"
n. someone whose age is in the nineties
Usage examples of "nonagenarian".
We have recently converted a nonagenarian female, who came here close to death, to a lithesome demimondaine of 23, but that took careful Tyrin attention as well as the pink.
Without pretending to rival the alleged cases of life prolonged beyond the middle of its second century, such as those of Henry Jenkins and Thomas Parr, we can make a good showing of centenarians and nonagenarians.
Among nonagenarians, three whose names are well known to Bostonians, Lord Lyndhurst, Josiah Quincy, and Sidney Bartlett, were remarkable for retaining their faculties in their extreme age.
One of the, three nonagenarians before referred to expressed himself as having a great curiosity about the new sphere of existence to which he was looking forward.
Especially let the mother come of a race in which octogenarians and nonagenarians are very common phenomena.
The climate, however, is not, truth to tell, bad, and we even have a few nonagenarians in our parish.
As it was obvious that the seventh was soon to follow his predecessors, it did not take great insight to see that she had her own motives in accompanying Il Conde to Prygg, which focused about the nonagenarian figure of Prince Roman, the extravagantly wealthy cousin of the King of Pryggia.