fortysomething
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- adjective
- /ˈfɔrtiˌsʌmθɪŋ/
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cuarentón
- He joined a group for fortysomething singles looking to connect with others in the same age range.
- fortysomething lawyer
- fortysomething woman
Examples
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The idea behind all this is that as a nerd girl you are the fulfillment of the wishes of a whole subculture of sex-starved young or youngish men (actually, there are probably a lot of fortysomething virgin males in that subculture).
Blog text (2) -
Many fortysomething parents are struggling to balance work and family life.
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More like your average, dark-haired, fortysomething businessman in a striped shirt and loosened tie.
Fiction book (2002) -
Chris Tucker is a fortysomething-year-old father who made an adult decision not to reprise a role of a pothead.
Blog text (17) -
But, like his fortysomething filmmaker peerage, his spectacle films are still rooted in the experience of seeing the 1977 film again and again as a wide-eyed 10-year-old.
Blog text (22) -
As a fortysomething professional, she has accumulated years of experience in her field.
Synonyms
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About forty years old in appearance
How Old
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Morphology
Etymology
Fortysomething comes from joining forty and something, where something means 'some amount' or 'about'. It is like twentysomething and thirtysomething, and it means 'in the forties', so you use it to describe someone aged forty to forty-nine.