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-year-oldSuffix - Suffix used to indicate the age of something or someone, in terms of years.
2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport: - But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain.
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30: - Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] Children address teachers by their first names. Even 15-year-olds do no more than 30 minutes' homework a night.
- A seventy-year-old man's body was found in a river last night.
Usage notesThe suffix is used for nouns as well as adjectives, e.g. I am in love with a thirty-year-old. (noun)The 200-year-old remains were found last night. (adjective)Related terms(smaller divisions): -month-old, -week-old, -day-old, etc.(young animals): See youngling(under 2 years old): See baby(2–4 years old): See toddler(5-year-old): quinquennarian(6-year-old): sexennarian(7-year-old): septenary, septenarian(8–12 years old): See preteen(13–19 years old): See teenager(a minor): See child(20–29 years old): twentysomething(30–39 years old): thirtysomething(40–49 years old): fortysomething, quadragenarian, quadragenarious(50–59 years old): fiftysomething, quinquagenarian, quinquagenary, quintagenarian(60–69 years old): sixtysomething, sexagenarian, sexagenary(70–79 years old): seventysomething, septagenerian, septagenary(80–89 years old): eightysomething, octagenarian, octagenary(90–99 years old): ninetysomething, nonagenarian, nonagenary(100-year-old): hundredsomething, centagenarian centenary, centenarian, centenarial(lasting 40 years): quadragesimal |