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year-old (Suffix used to indicate the age of something or someone, in terms of years. A seventy-year-old man's body was found in a river last night. 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, "Arsenal 2 – 1 Olympiakos", BBC Sport: But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain. Usage notes The suffix is used for nouns as well as adjectives, e.g. I am in love with a thirty-year-old. (noun) The 200-year-old remains were found last night. (adjective). wikt. The group then blamed a 48-year-old known as Valery Kurochkin. TG Alexander Demidov) |
