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Definition 2024
twenty-six-year-old
-year-old
English
Suffix
- Suffix used to indicate the age of something or someone, in terms of years.
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
- But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain.
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] Children address teachers by their first names. Even 15-year-olds do no more than 30 minutes' homework a night.
- A seventy-year-old man's body was found in a river last night.
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Usage notes
The suffix is used for nouns as well as adjectives, e.g.
- I am in love with a thirty-year-old. (noun)
- The 200-year-old remains were found last night. (adjective)
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Translations
suffix used to indicate the age of something or someone, in terms of years
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