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单词 nonagenarian
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Definition of nonagenarian in English:

nonagenarian

noun ˌnəʊnədʒɪˈnɛːrɪənˌnɒnədʒɪˈnɛːrɪən
  • A person who is between 90 and 99 years old.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Young men, women and children, nonagenarians and the physically challenged thronged the four-day fair, which concluded on July 7.
    • The two broke free but were cuffed by police after escaping the attacking nonagenarian through a bedroom window.
    • As is the case for many nonagenarians, Ken Clark is experiencing age-related difficulties and is not in the best of health, but on behalf of his many colleagues, admirers and friends, I wish him the best.
    • The nonagenarian took as his new bride a fiftysomething museum director, Louise Kertz.
    • Mind you, that's to be expected from a group of nonagenarians - aged, as they are, at 91, 94, and 95 years old.
    • With her encouragement, the nonagenarian re-created lost sketches of his hotels that proved the theories.
    • There has been no such division, however, over the participation of two nonagenarians, one in Mexico and one in Los Angeles.
    • My mother, a nonagenarian, has always had a sense of occasion.
    • In 1954, just prior to becoming a nonagenarian, Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver, who had retired from the Harvard faculty more than two decades before, began a new career as a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
    • Now a nonagenarian, Hashim's life is pretty simple.
    • Among the pieces on show were calligraphy and paintings by the 100-year-old master Chen Li-fu and by nonagenarians Chang Long-yien and Fu Chuan-fu, two living greats of the Chinese art scene.
    • Kunkel and Perls believe that additional genetic analyses of nonagenarians and centenarians will lead to the identification of a few genes that confer longevity in humans.
    • It was, she told her fellow researchers, as if a nonagenarian suddenly looked forty-something.
    • Eva Hughes had never even used a typewriter before starting computer lessons but now the nonagenarian has proven it's never too late to learn.
    • Seth's son Enos was a peppy nonagenarian when he begat Cainan, and he lived 815 years afterwards; and so on up to Methuselah, who set the biblical record at 969 years.
    • At the age of 92, the great master began work on her last major photographic project-stunning portraits of other nonagenarians.
    • On the other hand, the mother, a sprightly nonagenarian, acquitted herself well in the interview, and both she and Ann came across as ‘better’ people as a result.
    • And as often happens with nonagenarians (which she was that summer), the people of whom she spoke most affectionately - Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, - were all dead.
    • His father, a nonagenarian, lived long enough to see his unconventional son become an international celebrity.
    • During the evening a painting, a montage of 150 years of schooling by Badsey artist Michael Barnard, was unveiled by nonagenarians Molly Corbett and Fred Mason, the school's oldest ex-pupils present.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Latin nonagenarius (based on nonaginta 'ninety') + -an.

Rhymes

agrarian, antiquarian, apiarian, Aquarian, Arian, Aryan, authoritarian, barbarian, Bavarian, Bulgarian, Caesarean (US Cesarean), centenarian, communitarian, contrarian, Darien, disciplinarian, egalitarian, equalitarian, establishmentarian, fruitarian, Gibraltarian, grammarian, Hanoverian, humanitarian, Hungarian, latitudinarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, millenarian, necessarian, necessitarian, octogenarian, ovarian, Parian, parliamentarian, planarian, predestinarian, prelapsarian, proletarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, quodlibetarian, Rastafarian, riparian, rosarian, Rotarian, sabbatarian, Sagittarian, sanitarian, Sauveterrian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, topiarian, totalitarian, Trinitarian, ubiquitarian, Unitarian, utilitarian, valetudinarian, vegetarian, veterinarian, vulgarian
 
 

Definition of nonagenarian in US English:

nonagenarian

noun
  • A person who is from 90 to 99 years old.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was, she told her fellow researchers, as if a nonagenarian suddenly looked forty-something.
    • At the age of 92, the great master began work on her last major photographic project-stunning portraits of other nonagenarians.
    • Among the pieces on show were calligraphy and paintings by the 100-year-old master Chen Li-fu and by nonagenarians Chang Long-yien and Fu Chuan-fu, two living greats of the Chinese art scene.
    • During the evening a painting, a montage of 150 years of schooling by Badsey artist Michael Barnard, was unveiled by nonagenarians Molly Corbett and Fred Mason, the school's oldest ex-pupils present.
    • As is the case for many nonagenarians, Ken Clark is experiencing age-related difficulties and is not in the best of health, but on behalf of his many colleagues, admirers and friends, I wish him the best.
    • With her encouragement, the nonagenarian re-created lost sketches of his hotels that proved the theories.
    • Now a nonagenarian, Hashim's life is pretty simple.
    • In 1954, just prior to becoming a nonagenarian, Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver, who had retired from the Harvard faculty more than two decades before, began a new career as a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
    • There has been no such division, however, over the participation of two nonagenarians, one in Mexico and one in Los Angeles.
    • Seth's son Enos was a peppy nonagenarian when he begat Cainan, and he lived 815 years afterwards; and so on up to Methuselah, who set the biblical record at 969 years.
    • Young men, women and children, nonagenarians and the physically challenged thronged the four-day fair, which concluded on July 7.
    • On the other hand, the mother, a sprightly nonagenarian, acquitted herself well in the interview, and both she and Ann came across as ‘better’ people as a result.
    • My mother, a nonagenarian, has always had a sense of occasion.
    • Eva Hughes had never even used a typewriter before starting computer lessons but now the nonagenarian has proven it's never too late to learn.
    • His father, a nonagenarian, lived long enough to see his unconventional son become an international celebrity.
    • The two broke free but were cuffed by police after escaping the attacking nonagenarian through a bedroom window.
    • Mind you, that's to be expected from a group of nonagenarians - aged, as they are, at 91, 94, and 95 years old.
    • And as often happens with nonagenarians (which she was that summer), the people of whom she spoke most affectionately - Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, - were all dead.
    • Kunkel and Perls believe that additional genetic analyses of nonagenarians and centenarians will lead to the identification of a few genes that confer longevity in humans.
    • The nonagenarian took as his new bride a fiftysomething museum director, Louise Kertz.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Latin nonagenarius (based on nonaginta ‘ninety’) + -an.

 
 
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