fortysomething
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom forty + -something.
Numeral
editfortysomething
- (colloquial) An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive).
- Coordinate terms: twentysomething, thirtysomething, fiftysomething, sixtysomething, seventysomething, eightysomething, ninetysomething, hundredsomething
Noun
editfortysomething (countable and uncountable, plural fortysomethings)
- (countable, colloquial) A person between 40 and 49 years old.
- She was a sprightly fortysomething.
- 2015 September 13, Euan Ferguson, “The week in TV: Doctor Foster; Beck; Ballers; Hunted; The Queen’s Longest Reign: Elizabeth and Victoria”, in The Observer[1]:
- Some people console themselves with the thought that, basically, worse things happen at sea: in middle-class Britain today, particularly familied fortysomethings, it’s Chicken-Licken time.
Synonyms
editCoordinate terms
edit- teen (13–19)
- vicenarian (20–29)
- twentysomething (20–29)
- tricenarian (30–39)
- thirtysomething (30–39)
- quinquagenarian (50–59)
- semicentenarian (50–59)
- fiftysomething (50–59)
- sexagenarian (60–69)
- sixtysomething (60–69)
- septuagenarian (70–79)
- seventysomething (70–79)
- octogenarian (80–89)
- eightysomething (80–89)
- nonagenarian (90–99)
- ninetysomething (90–99)
- centenarian (100–199)
- semisupercentenarian (105–109)
- supercentenarian (110+)
Translations
editA person between 40 and 49 years in age
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