Supercentenarian
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Supercentenarian is a noun meaning A person that is at least 110 years old.
Meaning
A person that is at least 110 years old.
More Meanings
- (loosely, dated) Synonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old, especially someone well over age 100.
Example Sentences
A rare supercentenarian, he remained remarkably lucid after 11 decades, even maintaining a blog. His brain has been donated for research on what’s known as super-aging.
On the other hand, we sometimes have occasion to observe the advent of the changes referred to delayed, and men arrive at the period of eighty, ninety, or a hundred years, or become, indeed, super-centenarians, without exhibiting those characterizing features to which, in their totality, we apply, as I have said, the term "age".
Word Forms
- supercentenarians
- super-centenarian
Synonyms for supercentenarian
Depending on context, synonyms include centenarian.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include super-centenarian, ultracentenarian, centenarian, semisupercentenarian, supracentenarian, ultracentenarianism.
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