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multicentenarian

multicentenarian noun: one who is at least 200 years old.

Noun

multicentenarian (plural multicentenarians)

  1. One who is at least 200 years old.
    • In Shaw's perfect world of the multicentenarians, life has been reduced to a blank.1962, William Edward Bohn, I remember America, page 36
    • To be seventy or eighty was to be as 'full of years' as a multicentenarian Old Testament prophet.2005, Ronald Blythe, The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age, →ISBN, page 12

Examples of multicentenarian in a sentence

  • He held the record, but there seem to have been plenty of other multicentenarians around at the time, including Noah and old Adam himself.2009, The Economist - Volume 391, Issues 8626-8637, page 42:
  • Vacancies were becoming more and more rare as rejuvenators plied their controversial trade, turning good citizens into multicentenarian eloi.2014, Greg Bear, Queen of Angels, →ISBN:
  • Should we worry about a world of stodgy multicentenarians who will resist the innovations of ninety-something upstarts and perhaps ban the begetting of pesky children altogether?2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN:

Forms of multicentenarian

pluralmulticentenarians

Origin of multicentenarian

From multi- + centenarian.

Questions about multicentenarian

What does multicentenarian mean?
Multicentenarian means one who is at least 200 years old.
How do you use multicentenarian in a sentence?
He held the record, but there seem to have been plenty of other multicentenarians around at the time, including Noah and old Adam himself.
What part of speech is multicentenarian?
Multicentenarian is a noun.
What is the plural of multicentenarian?
The plural of multicentenarian is multicentenarians.

Words near multicentenarian in the dictionary

  1. multicelluar
  2. multicellular
  3. multicellularity
  4. multicellulars
  5. multicellulase
  6. multicentenarian
  7. multicentenarians
  8. multicentennial
  9. multicenter
  10. multicentered
  11. multicentral

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