nonagenarian

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A nonagenarian was approaching me and quite rightly I was rather petrified of this wrinkly, hairy, but smiling old lady.

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  1. noun A person 90 years old or between 90 and 100 years old.

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  • Even as a nonagenarian billionaire, Pohlad never retired. —  News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio
  • The newly minted nonagenarian has been delivering his own unique take on news in his own unique style based out of Chicago for 57 years now. —  Latest Articles
  • It is obvious that his batting is not ideally suited to twenty20 but truly alarming was his captaincy: he led Bangalore last year like a nonagenarian introduced to the internet; baffled, ineffectual and comically slow on the uptake. —  Cricket365
  • A nonagenarian was approaching me and quite rightly I was rather petrified of this wrinkly, hairy, but smiling old lady. —  New Statesman
  • Wechsler, spry for a nonagenarian, notes that Gehry's creative force (well-known and prized among his artist friends in LA) lacked confidence until the architect left an unsatisfying marriage. —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. From Latin nōnāgēnārius, from nōnāgēnī, ninety each, from nōnāgintā, ninety : nōnus, ninth; see nona- + -gintā, ten times; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also nonagenarian; = French nonagénaire = Spanish Portuguese Italian nonagenario, from Latin nonagenarius, containing or consisting of ninety; as a noun, a commander of ninety men; from nonageni, ninety each, from nonaginta, ninety: see ninety.
 

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