What's the difference between sexagenarian and sexagenary?

Sexagenarian


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who is sixty years old.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ozzy Osbourne joined fellow sexagenarians Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward at the venue where the band made their Los Angeles debut in 1970, to address a large, black-t-shirt-clad crowd.
  • (2) Hopefully it takes more than a throwing knife hurled by a vengeful sexagenarian to take him down.
  • (3) Late results of pacemaker implanted in the octogenarian have been as good as in the sexagenarian.
  • (4) We studied two sexagenarians who had recurrent circumscribed attacks of amnesia.
  • (5) The sexagenarian patriarch has, however, expressed doubts about his sons’ plan for a commune of “patriots” in Oregon.
  • (6) Atrial septal defect in the sexagenarian can be closed without complication.
  • (7) In contrast in treated sexagenarians protracted awakening was observed.

Sexagenary


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old.
  • (n.) Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
  • (n.) A sexagenarian.

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