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bicentenarian

bicentenarian noun: one who or that which is between 200 and 299 years old.

Noun

bicentenarian (plural bicentenarians)

  1. One who or that which is between 200 and 299 years old.
    • 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.1932 April 1, Arthur Harmount Graves, “Can We Bring Back the Chestnut?”, in The University of the State of New York: Bulletin to the Schools, volume 18, number 14, pages 215–216
    • How long those lives can be expected to last is hard to say, because even the oldest persons around aren’t yet much more than bicentenarians (that’s the time since the procedures first became available), and they show no signs of old age yet.1992 November, Frederik Pohl, “Outnumbering the Dead”, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, volume 16, numbers 12 & 13 (whole 192 & 193), page 252

Examples of bicentenarian in a sentence

  • My instincts told me he was exaggerating, but I had little personal experience with bicentenarians.2003, Sean P. Fodera, “Attached Please Find My Novel”, in Julie E. Czerneda, editor, Space Inc., DAW Books, page 184:
  • Altogether they located nearly two thousand living centenarians, some of whom were already well past 150 and on their way to becoming “bicentenarians.”2006, Daniel Reid, The Tao Of Detox: The Natural Way to Purify Your Body for Health And Longevity, Simon & Schuster, published 2007, →ISBN:

Forms of bicentenarian

pluralbicentenarians

Origin of bicentenarian

From bi- + centenarian.

Questions about bicentenarian

What does bicentenarian mean?
Bicentenarian means one who or that which is between 200 and 299 years old.
How do you use bicentenarian in a sentence?
My instincts told me he was exaggerating, but I had little personal experience with bicentenarians.
What part of speech is bicentenarian?
Bicentenarian is a noun.
What is the plural of bicentenarian?
The plural of bicentenarian is bicentenarians.

Words near bicentenarian in the dictionary

  1. bicelle
  2. bicelles
  3. bicellular
  4. bicenquinquagenaries
  5. bicenquinquagenary
  6. bicentenarian
  7. bicentenarians
  8. bicentenaries
  9. bicentenary
  10. bicentennial
  11. bicentennially

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