Definition

1. Noun:

   • A person who is between 60 and 69 years old: A "sexagenarian" is someone whose age is in the sixties.

2. Adjective:

   • Being from 60 to 69 years old: The term "sexagenarian" describes something related to or characteristic of this age group.

Examples

• Noun:

  • The club for active retirees has many sexagenarians who enjoy hiking and travel.
  • My father became a sexagenarian last year when he turned sixty.

• Adjective:

  • The study focused on the health habits of the sexagenarian population.
  • She is in excellent shape for a sexagenarian athlete.

Advanced Usage

• Demographic Term: Often used in formal, statistical, or demographic contexts to describe a specific age cohort.
  • Policymakers are analyzing the needs of the growing sexagenarian demographic.

Variants and Related Words

• Sexagenary (adjective, archaic): An older, less common form meaning "of or relating to sixty."
• Sexagenarianism (noun, rare): The state or condition of being a sexagenarian.

Synonyms

• Sixty-year-old: A more common, straightforward term for a person of this age.
• In one's sixties: A descriptive phrase for the age range.
• Senior citizen: A broader, more general term for an older person, not specific to the 60-69 range.

Antonyms

• Minor: A person under the age of legal majority.
• Nonagenarian: A person in their nineties (used to contrast a different specific decade of age).

Related Phrases

• "The young old": A sociological term sometimes used to describe people in their sixties and early seventies, distinguishing them from the "oldest old."
  • Many sexagenarians are considered part of "the young old," as they are often still very active.

Adjective

1. being from 60 to 69 years old
   • the sexagenarian population is growing

Noun

1. someone whose age is in the sixties