Definition of "quadragenarian" []

• Between the ages of 40 and 49; in one's fifth decade (adjective)
• One who is quadragenarian (noun)

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• "He, a stalwart, well-oiled quadragenarian, shone with sweat from his exertions, brandishing cooked pigs."
• "Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal – porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor."
• "Musil, who describes an incestuous passion between brother and sister, and Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, which describes the passion of a quadragenarian for"