quintagenarian

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

quintagenarian (plural quintagenarians)

1. One who is between the ages of 50 and 59, inclusive.
   • 1852, William Hamilton Maxwell, Highlands and Islands:

     That would be bad enough, God knows! but what is it to finding yourself in an infernal "fix," at a dinner-table, with a literary quintagenarian at your elbow […]