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sexagenarian

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Sexagenarian (noun) means someone aged between sixty and sixty-nine.

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Someone aged between sixty and sixty-nine.
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Etymology

Traces back to Latin sexāgēnārius ("containing 60") with -an (forming adjectives and representative nouns) added, either directly or by way of French sexagénaire, from Latin sexāgēnus ("60 each") with -ārius ("-ary") added, from sexāgintā ("six tens, 60").

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"sexagenarian" (noun) means someone aged between sixty and sixty-nine.
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