forty-somethingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From forty +‎ -something.

数詞

fortysomething

1. (colloquial) An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive).

   Coordinate terms: twentysomething, thirtysomething, fiftysomething, sixtysomething, seventysomething, eightysomething, ninetysomething, hundredsomething

名詞

fortysomething (countable and uncountable, plural fortysomethings)

1. (countable, colloquial) A person between 40 and 49 years old.

   She was a sprightly fortysomething.

   • 2015 September 13, Euan Ferguson, “The week in TV: Doctor Foster; Beck; Ballers; Hunted; The Queen’s Longest Reign: Elizabeth and Victoria”, in The Observer‎:

     Some people console themselves with the thought that, basically, worse things happen at sea: in middle-class Britain today, particularly familied fortysomethings, it’s Chicken-Licken time.

同意語

• quadragenarian

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