What is a Vicenarian?

A person between 20 and 29 is called a vicenarian. A person between 30 and 39 is called a tricenarian. A person between 40 and 49 is called a quadragenarian. A person between 50 and 59 is called a quinquagenarian.
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What is the origin of the word Vicenarian?

English word vicenarian comes from Latin vigeni ((distributive) twenty each; twenty at a time.), Latin viginti ((cardinal) twenty; 20.)
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What is someone in their 70s called?

Definition of septuagenarian

: a person whose age is in the seventies.
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What do you call a person between the ages of 60 and 69?

What does sexagenarian mean? A sexagenarian is someone in their 60s (60 to 69 years old), or someone who is 60 years old.
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What is age 50 called?

Definition of quinquagenarian

(Entry 1 of 2) : fifty years old : characteristic of a person of such an age. quinquagenarian.
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What age is considered old for a woman?

They have different cognitive abilities, different physical abilities." By that definition, a typical woman in the United States is old at age 73, and a typical man at age 70, Petrow writes.
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How do you say old politely?

There seems to be general agreement among experts that "elderly" and "senior citizen" and "aged" are on the outs. "Elders" has fans because it connotes respect, but, apparently, some critics think it's too much like "elderly."
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What is a 90 year old man called?

A person between 80 and 89 is called an octogenarian. A person between 90 and 99 is called a nonagenarian. A person between 100 and 109 is called a centenarian. A person 110 years old or older is called a supercentenarian.
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What is a 100 year old person called?

A person who is 100 years old or older is a centenarian. Below you will find some quotes from news stories about centenarians, to show how this word is used. Meanwhile, here are some other words for people who are not quite as old as centenarians: a person who is between 70 and 79 years old is a septuagenarian.
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What is an 80 year old person called?

Definition of octogenarian

: a person whose age is in the eighties The octogenarian uses a cane for walking.
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Is 70 considered old?

Typically, the elderly has been defined as the chronological age of 65 or older. People from 65 to 74 years old are usually considered early elderly, while those over 75 years old are referred to as late elderly.
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What do you call 40 year olds?

A quadragenarian is someone in their 40s (40 to 49 years old), or someone who is 40 years old.
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What is an Oxygenarian?

The word "Oxygenarian" is a play on the word "Octogenarian", which is a person who has lived at least 80 years.
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What are 20 years called?

vicennial. / (vɪˈsɛnɪəl) / adjective. occurring every 20 years. relating to or lasting for a period of 20 years.
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What tween means?

A tween (pre-teen) is a child who's between the stages of childhood and adolescence. It's this “in-between” stage that the name “tween” is derived from. The term was first coined in the late 1980s. Children enter their tween years somewhere around ages 9 to 12 years old.
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Can a person live to be 200 years old?

Humans may be able to live for between 120 and 150 years, but no longer than this "absolute limit" on human life span, a new study suggests.
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What is a 5 year old called?

Preschoolers (3-5 years of age).
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How rare is it to live to 90?

Age 90 isn't some wild outlier. The SOA's data suggests that a 65-year-old male today, in average health, has a 35% chance of living to 90; for a woman the odds are 46%.
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What age is considered over the hill?

If life is a hike up and over a hill, then when you reach the top you are at your prime and once you start walking over the hill and descending the other side you are over your prime and starting to descend into old age. Generally speaking, turning 40 years old meant you were now over the hill.
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What is someone in their 20s called?

Vicenarian: Someone in his or her twenties. Tricenarian: Someone in his or her thirties. Quadragenarian: Someone in his or her forties. Quinquagenarian: Someone in his or her fifties. Sexagenarian: Someone in his or her sixties.
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What do you call a person between 50 and 59?

A quinquagenarian is someone in their 50s (50 to 59 years old), or someone who is 50 years old.
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What is it called when a younger person likes an older person?

A person with such a sexual preference is a gerontophile or gerontosexual. The word gerontophilia was coined in 1901 by psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. It derives from Greek: geron, meaning "old person" and philia, meaning "friendship".
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Is 35 considered middle age?

The stages of adulthood examined here include: Early Adulthood (ages 22--34). Early Middle Age (ages 35--44), Late Middle Age (ages 45--64), and Late Adulthood (ages 65 and older).
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What age is considered elderly in America?

Traditionally, the “elderly” are considered to be those persons age 65 and older. By that definition, in 1987 there were just over 30 million elderly people in the United States, more than 12 percent of the total U.S. population of nearly 252 million (Table 3.1).
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