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supercentenarian

supercentenarian noun: a person that is at least 110 years old.

Noun

supercentenarian (plural supercentenarians)

  1. A person that is at least 110 years old.
    • On the other hand, we sometimes have occasion to observe the advent of the changes referred to delayed, and men arrive at the period of eighty, ninety, or a hundred years, or become, indeed, super-centenarians, without exhibiting those characterizing features to which, in their totality, we apply...1856, Edwin Canton, “Observations on the Arcus Senilis, or Fatty Degeneration of the Cornea, Part VI”, in Thomas Wakley, editor, The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Surgery...
    • A rare supercentenarian, he remained remarkably lucid after 11 decades, even maintaining a blog. His brain has been donated for research on what’s known as super-aging.2024 June 11, Alex Williams, “Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. (broadly, dated) Synonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old, especially someone well over age 100.
    Synonyms:
    centenarian

supercentenarian meaning in Malayalam

supercentenarian in Malayalam

ശതാതീതായുഷ്മാൻ

Synonyms of supercentenarian

Forms of supercentenarian

pluralsupercentenarians
alternative formsuper-centenarian

Origin of supercentenarian

From super- (“beyond, more than”) + centenarian (“100-year old”), q.v.

Words formed from supercentenarian

Questions about supercentenarian

What does supercentenarian mean?
Supercentenarian means a person that is at least 110 years old.
What is supercentenarian in Malayalam?
Supercentenarian in Malayalam is ശതാതീതായുഷ്മാൻ. See Supercentenarian meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is supercentenarian?
Supercentenarian is a noun.
What is the plural of supercentenarian?
The plural of supercentenarian is supercentenarians.

Words near supercentenarian in the dictionary

  1. supercelestial
  2. supercelestially
  3. supercell
  4. supercells
  5. supercellular
  6. supercentenarian
  7. supercentenarians
  8. supercenter
  9. supercenters
  10. supercentre
  11. supercentres

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