Choose the correct word which can substitute the following words:
A person who is in his/her eighties.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Octogenarian
An octogenarian is a person who is between 80 and 89 years old. The word comes from the Latin octogeni (eighty each), from octo (eight).
Example: My grandmother, an octogenarian, still walks two kilometres every morning.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Septuagenarian — Incorrect. A septuagenarian is a person in his or her seventies (70 to 79 years old).
Example: The septuagenarian author published her first novel last year.
Option 2: Quinquagenarian — Incorrect. A quinquagenarian is a person in his or her fifties (50 to 59 years old).
Example: The quinquagenarian runner finished the marathon in good time.
Option 3: Nanogenarian — Incorrect. This is not an English word. A person in his or her nineties is a nonagenarian.