Question

According to the following dictionary entry, what part of speech is “octogenarian”?

oc•to•ge•nar•i•an
noun \ˌäk-tə-jə-ˈner-ē-ən\
: a person who is between 80 and 89 years old

Origin of OCTOGENARIAN
Latin octogenarius containing eighty, from octogeni eighty each, from octoginta eighty, from octo eight + -ginta (akin to viginti twenty) — more at vigesimal
First Known Use: 1815

Rhymes with OCTOGENARIAN
abecedarian, Austro-Hungarian, authoritarian, communitarian, disciplinarian, documentarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, majoritarian
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The word “octogenarian” is a noun.

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