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  quadragenarian - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
She will only be a quadragenarian until August.
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 quadragenarian - English-Italian Dictionary - WordReference.com
We found no English translation for 'quadragenarian' in our English to Italian Dictionary.
Discussioni nei forum nel cui titolo รจ presente la parola 'quadragenarian':
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  Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
Stage 16 saw him in an epic battle with Eddy Merckx over the climbs of the Col du Portillon and the Col de Peyresourde, followed by the first-ever finish at the Pla d'Adet summit (5511 feet).
Antoine Blondin’s nickname for Poulidor throughout that Tour was "the quadragenarian".
Poulidor finished that Tour in second spot (Since he had finished second ten years before maybe “eternal second” does have something to it).
www.dailypeloton.com /displayarticle.asp?pk=9882   (478 words)

  
 Define quadragenarian - Definition of quadragenarian from Free-Online-Dictionary.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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I am leaner and meaner than I have been in years, a quadragenarian who has found that 40 really can be...
Apollo BBS Archive - Feburary 1990 Your quakebuttock pusillanimity is not, I hope, a bellwether for my own quadragenarian years.
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 quadragenarian - OneLook Dictionary Search
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quadragenarian : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
quadragenarian : The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
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 CONTEXT: Issue No. 12   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This man, too, is troubled by his inability to connect his subjective experience of time and space with more objective criteria.
Looking at himself in the mirror, he is amazed to see a quadragenarian; and the more he looks, the faster he sees that man age.
He finds tenuous connection with the world late at night, in the rooftop swimming pool of a luxury hotel in Tokyo, gazing out at the city lights.
www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no12/Motte.html   (2313 words)

  
 Report from the 8th Rachel Corrie Banner Project Demonstration : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Previous demonstrations have been held in front of the offices of Congresswomen Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee, Congressman Tom Lantos and Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.
Rachel Corrie, who was barely in the spring of her lifetime, is constantly teaching this quadragenarian valuable lessons about courage, integrity, liberation, pureness of spirit and about how compassion in a beautiful heart and intellect in a beautiful mind can work together for a better world for everyone.
Rachel Corrie - one of the greatest heroes of all time - was murdered for her belief in the dignity of the Palestinian people and their right to live in one state based on equality for all regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or sex.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2004/01/1672725_comment.php   (625 words)

  
 Definition of quadragenarian - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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 Human development (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also sometimes used are terms that specify one's age in decades, such as:
Forty something (40-49) (Formerly also Quadragenarian, rarely used since 1980)
Ability to lift and control the orientation of the head
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_development_(biology)   (380 words)

  
 AskOxford: Weird but Wonderful
quadragenarian [kwah-druh-djuh-nair-ee-un] someone who is forty years old.
One such person is described as "a stalwart well-oiled quadragenarian" in a citation from 1892.
The adjective is quadragenarious, which is used in the 1895 citation "One of these plumply mellow quadrigenarious bodies."
www.askoxford.com /worldofwords/wordfrom/weirdbutwonderful/?view=uk   (516 words)

  
 Chapter 4
Miss Phipps, for her part, didn't like dressing for effect - she had always avoided that style of appearance which was calculated to create a sensation.
Mr Bridmain, in fact, quadragenarian bachelor as he was, felt extremely well pleased to receive his sister in her widowhood, and to shine in the reflected light of her beauty and title.
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
www.princeton.edu /~batke/eliot/scenes/amos_04.html   (1231 words)

  
 Cinemax on Demand - See What's On   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The title says it all in this comic saga about a virginal electronics salesman whose co-workers launch him on a wildly misguided quest for sex.
Steve Carell (star of TV's The Office) is Andy, the bike riding, action-figure collecting quadragenarian whose colossal erotic failures have prompted him to give up trying to score with the ladies.
His buddies, a trio of unenlightened "experts," ply him full of riotously worthless advice ("Be David Caruso in Jade," suggests one) that leads him to try everything from picking up extremely drunk women to undergoing the most savage body wax in human history.
www.hbo.com /apps/hodschedule/cod50details.do?FID=PMRS34215   (184 words)

  
 Quadragenarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A quadragenarian is a person in the age group 40 to 49 years old.
This term — along with quinquagenarian to denote someone 50 to 59 years old — appeared in most English-language dictionaries as recently as the 1960s, but since then it has often been omitted, suggesting that it is no longer in conventional use.
Ihre Neigung zu dem Prinzen, das gute Herz ueberlaesst sich so ganz seinem Verlangen, dass Vater Der Wohlstand, wie der leichte Flor auf ihrem Busen, kann die Bewegung leisen Bewegung.
www.choam.info /title/qu/quadragenarian.html   (303 words)

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