Quadricentenarian

Quick meaning: Quadricentenarian is a noun meaning One who or that which is between 400 and 499 years old.

Meaning

One who or that which is between 400 and 499 years old.

Example Sentences

Historic towns. Some are centenarians. But San Germán (right) is a quadricentenarian — and the home of one of the oldest churches in America.

So I began the series as a quadricentenarian, a 400-year-old, and travelled backwards in time until eventually I reached the age that I was, 58.

Previous to the discovery of this quadricentenarian, the record for the oldest animal was held by a 374-year-old Icelandic quahog clam housed in a German museum.

The quadricentenarians of the colony sat on the foremost benches, nodding numbly to the drone of the hardrangers’ strings, their liver-spotted fingers rippling to the runs of the tune.

Word Forms

• quadricentenarians

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tricentenarian, bicentenarian, centenarian, multicentenarian, ultracentenarian, centagenarian.

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