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centenarian

/ˌsɛntəˈnɛːrɪən/US/ˌsɛnəˈnɛɹiən/

centenarian noun: one who or that which is at least 100 years old.

Noun

centenarian (plural centenarians)

  1. One who or that which is at least 100 years old.
    • The average age of these 203 centenarians was 102 years 5 months and 25 days.1894 October 19, “Sex and Long Life”, in Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Summary of the Press Throughout the World on All Important Current Topics, volume LXVI, number 1,726, London
    • With an estimated worldwide population of some 40,000 centenarians, only 22 percent are male.1994, Peter Matthews, Norris McWhirter (editors), The Guiness Book of World Records 1994, page 158
    Synonyms:
    centenary, hundred-year-old, supercentenarian

Adjective

centenarian (comparative more centenarian, superlative most centenarian)

  1. Aged 100 years or more; extremely old.
    Synonyms:
    hundred-year-old, centenary
  2. Of or relating to centenarians or a centenary celebration.

centenarian meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada

centenarian in Hindi

a 100-year-old person
शतकवीर śatakvīr

centenarian in Tamil

நூறு வயதானவர், நூறு வயதான

centenarian in Telugu

a 100-year-old person
శతాయుష్మంతుడు śatāyuṣmantuḍu

centenarian in Kannada

ಶತಾಯು, ಶತಾಯುಷಿ, ನೂರು ವರ್ಷದ ವಯಸ್ಸಿನವನು, ನೂರು ವರ್ಷದ ವಯಸ್ಸಿನವಳು
More languagesFewer languages
centenarian in Tagalog
sasandaanin

Examples of centenarian in a sentence

  • First among the centenarians he listed was the Locke Breaux oak, the largest tree he knew, measuring 10.7 m (35 ft.) in circumference, 22.8 m (75 ft.) tall, with a spread of 50.6 m (166 ft.) in 1932.2003, Kit Anderson, Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala, University of...
  • Centenarians may become the norm, rather than rarities who generate a headline in the local newspaper.2014 September 18, Gregg Easterbrook, “What Happens When We All Live to 100?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

Synonyms of centenarian

Forms of centenarian

Noun
pluralcentenarians
Adjective
comparativemore centenarian
superlativemost centenarian

Origin of centenarian

From Latin centēnārius + -an, equivalent to centenary (“100 year, 100th anniversary”) + -an (“person”).

Words formed from centenarian

Questions about centenarian

What does centenarian mean?
Centenarian means one who or that which is at least 100 years old.
What is centenarian in Hindi?
Centenarian in Hindi is शतकवीर (śatakvīr). See Centenarian meaning in Hindi.
How do you use centenarian in a sentence?
First among the centenarians he listed was the Locke Breaux oak, the largest tree he knew, measuring 10.7 m (35 ft.) in circumference, 22.8 m (75 ft.) tall, with a spread of 50.6 m (166 ft.) in 1932.
What part of speech is centenarian?
Centenarian can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce centenarian?
Centenarian is pronounced /ˌsɛnəˈnɛɹiən/ (US).
What is the plural of centenarian?
The plural of centenarian is centenarians.

Words near centenarian in the dictionary

  1. centchroman
  2. CENTCOM
  3. centelloside
  4. centellosides
  5. centenar
  6. centenarian
  7. centenarianism
  8. centenarians
  9. centenaried
  10. centenaries
  11. centenars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: centenarian (page history and authors); centenarian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); centenarian (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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