Tricentenarian

Quick meaning: Tricentenarian is a noun meaning One who or that which is between 300 and 399 years old.

Meaning

One who or that which is between 300 and 399 years old.

Example Sentences

The third, entitled “The Thing Happens,” deals with the discovery, three hundred years hence, of certain persons who are tricentenarians surviving from our own time.

In their three-hundred-year spells of renewal, they do not even attain the widsom^([sic]) and earnestness of purpose that animate Shaw’s tricentenarians. The Makropoulos Secret, indeed, dramatizes the thought that we should be content with one life span as it is.

It took a long time — sometimes 10 or 15 years — for the fungus to kill a tree, especially if it were one of the patriarchs we have described. Even today, right in the vicinity of New York City, a very few of these bicentenarians or tricentenarians are desperately holding on to a thread of life.

A century from now, life spans of hundreds of years may be common. Learning pills will enable tricentenarians to change vocations at will, while genetic adjustments to increase intelligence will keep mankind a step ahead of computers—even if it means something as bizarre as transforming the appendix into an organic computer.

Word Forms

• tricentenarians

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bicentenarian, quadricentenarian, tricenarian, multicentenarian, centenarian, ultracentenarian.

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