quincentenarian
UK/ˌkwɪn.sɛn.təˈnɛəɹi.ən/US/ˌkwɪn.sɛn.təˈnɛɹi.ən/
quincentenarian noun: one who or that which is between 500 and 599 years old.
Noun
quincentenarian (plural quincentenarians)
- One who or that which is between 500 and 599 years old.
- As the Impératrice stopped two or three days in the magnificent harbor of Smyrna I had good opportunity to land and make my way to the scene of Polycarp’s Martyrdom amid the colossal cypresses which outdo all those of Italy, except the quincentenarians in the Giusti garden in Verona.1894, Frances Power Cobbe, Life of Frances Power Cobbe, volume I, Boston, Mass; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, page 231
- Judge Sullivan’s idea that men will sometime live to be 500 years old may prove true, but there is nothing enticing about the prospect. Unless the vigor of youth can accompany old age, the quincentenarian would be a Struldbrug or a Tithonus, a monster of senile hideousness or a being withered away...1910 August 9, “Will Men Sometime Live to Be 500 Years Old?”, in The Spokesman-Review, volume XXX, number 27, Spokane, Wash., page 4
Examples of quincentenarian in a sentence
- Unless the vigor of youth can accompany old age, the quincentenarian would be a Struldbrug or a Tithonus, a monster of senile hideousness or a being withered away to a whisper.1910 August 9, “Will Men Sometime Live to Be 500 Years Old?”, in The Spokesman-Review, volume XXX, number 27, Spokane, Wash., page 4:
- Upon waking, Ornaith’s thoughts went to this year’s celebrated quincentenarian, Christopher Columbus.1992 February, “Ornaith Murphy — The Road Less Traveled”, in Latitude 38, volume 176, page 101:
- “The Guardians,” said Draeg, “are all quincentenarians at least.1993, Joan Slonczewski, Daughter of Elysium, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, pages 38 and 49:
Forms of quincentenarian
| plural | quincentenarians |
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Origin of quincentenarian
From quin- + centenarian.
Words that rhyme with quincentenarian
- Darien
- barbarian
- Aryan
- libertarian
- Arian
- documentarian
- humanitarian
- sabbatarian
- sectarian
- unitarian
- vegetarian
- -arian
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- agrarian
- Bulgarian
- caesarian
- catenarian
- librarian
- lunarian
- Marian
- planetarian
- Ripuarian
- Solarian
- trinitarian
- alphabetarian
- antiauthoritarian
- aquarian
- Bolivarian
- communitarian
- contrarian
- corpuscularian
- denarian
- flexitarian
- futilitarian
- infirmarian
- Kaffrarian
- necessitarian
- nonsectarian
- paraovarian
- parian
- pollotarian
- proprietarian
- quinarian
- sacramentarian
- sanitarian
- semivegetarian
- Tartarean
- Tartarian
- Tocharian
- tricenarian
- valetudinarian
- vestiarian
- acarian
- actiniarian
- actuarian
- aerarian
- alcyonarian
- altitudinarian
- antelapsarian
- antiacarian
- antiegalitarian
Questions about quincentenarian
- What does quincentenarian mean?
- Quincentenarian means one who or that which is between 500 and 599 years old.
- How do you use quincentenarian in a sentence?
- Unless the vigor of youth can accompany old age, the quincentenarian would be a Struldbrug or a Tithonus, a monster of senile hideousness or a being withered away to a whisper.
- What part of speech is quincentenarian?
- Quincentenarian is a noun.
- How do you pronounce quincentenarian?
- Quincentenarian is pronounced /ˌkwɪn.sɛn.təˈnɛəɹi.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of quincentenarian?
- The plural of quincentenarian is quincentenarians.
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