Meaning of pentagenarian | Babel Free

Definitions

A person between 50 and 59 years old.

rare

Examples

“The path of Youth is illumined and flooded with the sunshine of optimism, courage, and sincerity: it does not stand in need of such feeble and flickering candle-light as the musty, out-of-date “experience” of cynical and disillusioned pentagenarians and sexagenarians can provide.”

“To pentagenarians whose dimming eyes can read this small type it may come as a surprise, indeed a shock, to learn that the household goods of their childhood and early maturity have become collectors’ items and that the very pieces they discarded only yesterday as junk are shatched up today as antiques.”

“We are concerned with the prescription of qualifications for promotion of the lower division clerks to upper division posts in the Registration Department. Rule 13 insists on passing certain tests for promotional eligibility. When tests were newly introduced, R. 13A gave 2 years from their introduction for passing them, to all hands — harijan and non-harijan, but the former enjoyed an extra two-year grace period. Rule 13B totally exempted pentagenarians from passing these tests.”

“I had never read a more devastating review from Jean Riverton—or, come to think of it, anyone—in my entire life. I could understand why she might have felt Vicky shouldn’t have invaded turf sacred to many of Calusa’s pentagenarians, but Jesus, did she have to rip her to shreds besides?”

“A 2003 survey by DBM, an outplacement firm, found that only 32% of workers over 57 earned the same or higher pay at their new employer, versus 42% of 38-to-56-year-olds (and 60% of 21-to-37-year-olds). Those data are all a year or two old, but the trends are continuing. “Older white-collar workers quickly become disenfranchised,” says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Economy.com. “They have difficulty getting back into the job market, and when they do, their compensation is often significantly reduced.” / How did life get so bad for pentagenarians? Age discrimination is part of the problem.”

“Ta Det Piano, Kipervikgata 1B (✆ 70-10-06-99), is one of Ålesund’s longest-running bars and still one of its most popular. This great hole in the wall is popular with everyone from college students to youthful pentagenarians.”

“Bodies age, triumphs fade. There’s no use trying to hang on. If you do, you’ll look like the chrome-domed pentagenarian down at Skink’s who, having dispatched the biscuits-in-redeye-gravy breakfast special for the two thousandth day in a row, shimmies into his decades-old letterman’s jacket—blue wool body, vinyl sleeves gone from white to tallow, the L on his chest the size and subtlety of Superman’s S.”

“One of our favorite pentagenarians is back.”

“They both traveled the world, climbed the holy mountains of Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia, visited other sites all over Europe and Asia. They came after three months of fitness training. I met Boris on the first weekend in March. He came to visit the Bosnian pyramids. These pentagenarians thought very highly of our work in Visoko.”

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