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Octogenarian - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Methuselah, Nestor, Sexagesima, Boxcar, Boxcars, Centenarian, Dozen, Eighty, Elder, Eleven, Fifteen, Fifty, Fortnight, Forty, Fourscore, Fourteen, Gaffer

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Sexagenarian
Septuagenarian
Octogenarian
Nonagenarian
Centenarian
Supercentenarian

An octogenarian is a person in the age group of 80 to 89 years old. An octogenarian of today is born between November 9, 1915 and November 9, 1925.

In most countries of the world, living octogenarians have all surpassed their average life expectancy. In a few countries, such as Japan, however, the life expectancy for women is 80 or over. These countries tend to have excellent longevity, with Japan for instance supplying several of the past world's oldest people.

Octogenarians of the Developed World

In many of the world's more developed nations that experienced the first and second world wars together and run on the same generational constellation, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France, Canada and Italy, people who are currently octogenarians belong to the G.I. Generation, or "Greatest Generation" that fought World War II. The generation's long history of collective civic activity and belief in government entitlements, combined with the government benefits that other generations believed they deserved for their massive sacrifices and heroism during the war, has led to massive senior lobbying that tilted government programs favorably towards the elderly. This has also been a factor in senior discounts that benefit people in their eighties, although as octogenarians have all surpassed their life expectancy and the G.I. Generation ages and slowly dies off, several amusement parks and other public places have recently begun dropping their senior discounts. Advances in health and medicine have led to more octogenarians being alive today than at any time before.

List of octogenarians

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Example Usage of Octogenarian
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DanielLight: My almost-Octogenarian neighbor from across the street just brought me shoots of hydrangea to plant. What a sweetie.
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