单词 | quadragenarian |
释义 | quadragenarianadj.n. A. adj. Aged between forty and forty-nine years (inclusive); characteristic of a person or persons in their forties. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age seven?1440 yearing1451 year-old1556 yeared1583 seventy1590 two-year1596 quinquagenarian1603 septuagenary1605 twelvea1616 thirty1618 three-yearling1621 one-eared1645 quadragenarious1656 trimenstruous1656 septennian1662 sexagenarian1663 sexagenary1663 octogenarya1696 seven-year-old1713 quinquagenary1715 yearling1729 septuagesimal1781 septuagenarian1793 octogenarian1818 fortyish1821 seventeen-year-old1821 three-year-old1825 week-old1826 centenarian1828 day-old1831 70-year-old1832 quadragenarian1834 century-old1836 nonagenarian1877 teenaged1913 thirtyish1925 1834 W. C. Macready Diary 3 Apr. (1912) I. 116 The three last acts of Sardanapalus..cannot, I think, pass with this quadragenarian Myrrha. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton iv, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 74 Mr Bridmain, in fact, quadragenarian bachelor as he was, felt extremely well pleased to receive his sister in her widowhood. 1897 Sat. Rev. 20 Feb. 195/2 Quadrigenarian critics. 1908 H. James Let. 31 Dec. in Lett. II. (1920) 118 I've just packed him off to the..ball,..under the sternest injunction as to his not coming back to me ‘engagged’ [sic] to a quadragenarian hack or a military widow—the mature women being here the greatest dancers. 1949 A. R. Burn Pericles & Athens ii. vi. 90 [Tolmides]..was the natural leader of those impatient of Pericles' new quadragenarian caution. 2002 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. (Nexis) 13 Feb. 2 c But you can't fathom the Braves going into the season with a quadragenarian first baseman, or can you? B. n. A person aged between forty and forty-nine years (inclusive). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun] one-year-old?1609 cinquanter1611 sexagenariana1646 septuagene1657 quintagenarian1687 threescore1721 septuagenarian1744 centenarian1747 seven-year-old1762 septuagenary1792 centenary1800 nonagenarian1804 sexagenary1814 octogenarian1815 nine-year-old1828 octogenary1828 semi-centenarian1828 quinquagenarian1830 quadragenarian1839 seventeen-year-old1858 70-year-old1870 twenty-firster1912 1839 Fraser's Mag. 20 752 The quadrigenarians may reasonably object, that as Lord Byron only lived to seven-and-thirty, he could not be a competent judge on this matter. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) xix. 184 A stalwart well-oiled quadragenarian. 1958 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 23 May a8/1 The prolonged and rejuvenated career of the Indians' amazing quadragenarian. 1978 E. Chargaff Heraclitean Fire iii. 180 Breathing in and breathing out, I became suddenly an old man, trying to comfort the quadragenarians when they complain of getting old. 1992 Spy (N.Y.) Oct. 34/1 It took once-feared quadragenarian Nolan Ryan eleven starts before he finally won a baseball game this season. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1834 |
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