Meanings
plural octogenarians
- Synonym of eightysomething: a person between 80 and 89 years old.
Finsbury Park station, one of the most important L.N.E.R. suburban junctions, is now an octogenarian.
1941 October, “Notes and News: Finsbury Park Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 4663 more examples
Mama was by no means the only grandma present, for the octogenarians had turned out en masse from their huts and lean-tos and were paddling about, diving and splashing as unconcernedly as though they really belonged in the sea rather than on land.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 75f; emphasis in original)To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work.
1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar, page 13First up for recriminations may be President Biden. What if the octogenarian had stuck to his original suggestion that he’d be a “bridge” president – i.e., a one-termer – and announced he wouldn’t run for a second term early last year, allowing for a proper primary competition among the next generation of Democratic leaders?
2024 November 6, Linda Feldmann, “What Trump’s historic victory says about America”, in The Christian Science MonitorSynonyms: eightysomething
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of eightysomething: a person between 80 and 89 years old.
adjectiveOf or related to eightysomethings.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebeing from 80 to 89 years old
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinoctōgēnus“80 each”
- Frenchoctogénaire
- Latinoctōgēnārius
- Englishoctogenarian
From Latin octōgēnārius + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French octogénaire, from Latin octōgēnus (“80 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from octōgintā (“eight tens, 80”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan octogenari
- octogenariOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
Finnish kahdeksissakymmenissä oleva, kahdeksankymppinen
- kahdeksissakymmenissä olevaOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
- kahdeksankymppinenOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
French octogénaire
- octogénaireOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
German achtzigjährig
- achtzigjährigOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
Hebrew גְּבוּרוֹת
- גְּבוּרוֹת (gvurót)Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
Hungarian nyolcvanas (éveiben járó), nyolcvanas
- nyolcvanas (éveiben járó)Of or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
- nyolcvanasOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
- nyolcvanvalahány évesOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
- nyolcvanadik születésnapját betöltöttOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
Portuguese octogenário, octogenária
- octogenárioOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
- octogenáriaOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
- oitentãoOf or related to people between 80 and 89 years of age
Cite this entry
octogenarian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/octogenarian
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