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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Containing or pertaining to ninety.
  2. n. A person who is ninety years old.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who is between the age of 90 and 99, inclusive. One who is in his or her tenth decade.
  2. adj. Being between the age of 90 and 99, inclusive. In one's tenth decade.
  3. adj. Of or relating to a nonagenarian.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A person ninety years old.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone whose age is in the nineties
  2. adj. being from 90 to 99 years old

Etymologies

  1. From Latin nōnāgēnārius ("of the number ninety") (from nonageni ("ninety each"), from nonaginta ("ninety"), from nona- (akin to novem ("nine")) + -ginta (akin to viginti ("twenty")), + -arius) +‎ -an (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin nōnāgēnārius, from nōnāgēnī, ninety each, from nōnāgintā, ninety : nōnus, ninth; see nona- + -gintā, ten times; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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