"eightysomething" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: eightysomethings [plural]
Etymology: From eighty + -something. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|eighty|something}} eighty + -something Head templates: {{en-noun}} eightysomething (plural eightysomethings)
  1. (colloquial) A person between 80 and 89 years old. Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): Age, Eighty, People Synonyms: octogenarian, octogenary [obsolete] Translations (a person between the ages of 80 and 89): octogenari (Catalan), osmdesátník [masculine] (Czech), tachtiger [masculine] (Dutch), octogénaire [feminine, masculine] (French), Achtzigjährige [feminine] (German), Achtzigjähriger [masculine] (German), nyolcvanas (Hungarian), osiemdziesięciolatek [masculine] (Polish), osiemdziesięciolatka [feminine] (Polish), octogenario [masculine] (Spanish), octogenaria [feminine] (Spanish), wawalumpuin (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-eightysomething-en-noun-wmwZDbar Disambiguation of Age: 98 2 Disambiguation of Eighty: 96 4 Disambiguation of People: 96 4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -something, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -something: 79 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 89 11 Coordinate_terms: teen, teenager (13–19), vicenarian (20–29), twentysomething (20–29), tricenarian (30–39), thirtysomething (30–39), quadragenarian (40–49), fortysomething (40–49), quinquagenarian (50–59), semicentenarian (50–59), fiftysomething (50–59), sexagenarian (60–69), sixtysomething (60–69), septuagenarian (70–79), seventysomething (70–79), nonagenarian (90–99), ninetysomething (90–99), centenarian (100–199), semisupercentenarian (105–109), supercentenarian (110+)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: eighty-something

Numeral [English]

Etymology: From eighty + -something. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|eighty|something}} eighty + -something Head templates: {{head|en|numeral}} eightysomething
  1. (colloquial) An indeterminate value between 80 (inclusive) and 90 (exclusive). Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-eightysomething-en-num-Su-zjMAq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: eighty-something

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.