Crossword clues for sexagenarian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sexagenarian \Sex`a*ge*na"ri*an\, n. [See Sexagenary.] A person who is sixty years old.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1738, "person sixty years old," from Latin sexagenarius "containing sixty," from sexagenarius, from sexageni "sixty each, sixty at a time," from sexaginta "sixty," from comb. form of sex (see six) + -genaria "ten times," from -ginta "tens," from PIE *dkm-ta-, from *dekm- "ten" (see ten). As an adjective from 1836.
Wiktionary
a. Being between the age of 60 and 69, inclusive. In one's seventh decade. n. A person who is 60 years old or between the ages of 60 and 69.
WordNet
adj. being from 60 to 69 years old; "the sexagenarian population is growing"
n. someone whose age is in the sixties
Usage examples of "sexagenarian".
To-morrow, for instance, I shall sit with you on the appeal tribunal and we shall see whether the high ideals of youth are controlled by any obstacle at all: and whether justice to the provincials can be denied them by any incompetent, avaricious, bloody-minded sexagenarian debauchee.
The game does not involve too much running and can consequently be played by sexagenarians and even by excessively corpulent men and women: Amsel became a faustball player.