supercentenarian
supercentenarian noun: a person that is at least 110 years old.
Noun
supercentenarian (plural supercentenarians)
- 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
- 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
| plural | supercentenarians |
|---|---|
| alternative form | super-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
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: supercentenarian (page history and authors); supercentenarian (Malayalam 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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