| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sexagenary |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sex·ag·e·nar·y |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s k-s j  -nr  |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Relating to or proceeding by sixties. 2. Sexagenarian. | | NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. sex·ag·e·nar·ies
A sexagenarian. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin sex gnrius, from sexgn , sixty each, from sexgint, sixty : sex, six; see sex– + -gint, ten times; see dek in Appendix I.
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