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nonagenarian

/non-uh-juh-nair-ee-uhn, noh-nuh-/US // ˌnɒn ə dʒəˈnɛər i ən, ˌnoʊ nə- //UK // (ˌnəʊnədʒɪˈnɛərɪən) //

非老龄人,年长者,耄耋之年的人,耄耋之年的老人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the age of 90 years, or between 90 and 100 years old.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a nonagenarian person.

Examples

  • Even today, after having been vaccinated, I regard it as the best mode of travel for a nonagenarian.

  • A few years back, they got paroled and went to Mountain View to tend to their nonagenarian mother.

  • Many a young man of to-day has done more and felt more than a peaceful, stationary nonagenarian of yesterday's rural life.

  • Biographical sketches of every Tennessee nonagenarian and centenarian Negro.

  • It is not hard to understand the feeling, never less called for than it was in the case of that beloved nonagenarian.

  • In that year died the nonagenarian Antonius Stradivarius, the greatest violin-maker the world has ever seen.

  • I received a postal card the other day from Clay, who is now a nonagenarian, in his armed castle in Kentucky.