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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. adj. between the ages of 40 and 49; in one's fifth decade
  2. n. one who is quadragenarian

Etymologies

  1. From Latin quadrāgintā ("forty"); compare octogenarian. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “He, a stalwart, well-oiled quadragenarian, shone with sweat from his exertions, brandishing cooked pigs.”

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  • “Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal – porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor.”

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  • “Musil, who describes an incestuous passion between brother and sister, and Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, which describes the passion of a quadragenarian for”

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  • “Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal-porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor.”

    The Wrong Box

  • “FIRMIANI, a respectable quadragenarian who in 1813 married the lady who afterwards became Mme. Octave de Camps.”

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1

  • “Now when a woman decides to love a man for what she can get out of him it is better to take a sexagenarian Excellency than a quadragenarian secretary; there's more profit and less annoyance.”

    Bureaucracy

  • “But delectable Diane isn't the only quadragenarian actress who fills our Twinkie.”

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