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tricentenarian

tricentenarian noun: one who or that which is between 300 and 399 years old.

Noun

tricentenarian (plural tricentenarians)

  1. One who or that which is between 300 and 399 years old.
    • He has grave doubts about the alleged longevity of the antediluvians, though apparently unaware that Prof. Owen has proved it to be inconsistent with physiological laws; but he is prepared to concede them a lifetime of more than two centuries, since, “according to Riley, Prince Puckler, and...1889 July 20, The Academy. A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art., volume XXXVI, number 898, London, page 34
    • The third, entitled “The Thing Happens,” deals with the discovery, three hundred years hence, of certain persons who are tricentenarians surviving from our own time.1921 May 28, “Back to Methuselah: By George Bernard Shaw”, in The Publishers' Weekly, volume XCIX, number 22, R. R. Bowker Co., page 1631

Examples of tricentenarian in a sentence

  • Perhaps the interior of the Antarctic continent may yield a crop of tricentenarians, since, according to Herodotus, the most wonderful things are generally found at the extremities of the earth.1889 July 20, The Academy. A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art., volume XXXVI, number 898, London, page 34:
  • Even today, right in the vicinity of New York City, a very few of these bicentenarians or tricentenarians are desperately holding on to a thread of life.1932 April 1, Arthur Harmount Graves, “Can We Bring Back the Chestnut?”, in The University of the State of New York: Bulletin to the...
  • In their three-hundred-year spells of renewal, they do not even attain the widsom^([sic]) and earnestness of purpose that animate Shaw’s tricentenarians.1984, The Crown Guide to the World’s Great Plays, from Ancient Greece to Modern Times, Crown Publishers, page 136:

Forms of tricentenarian

pluraltricentenarians

Origin of tricentenarian

From tri- + centenarian.

Questions about tricentenarian

What does tricentenarian mean?
Tricentenarian means one who or that which is between 300 and 399 years old.
How do you use tricentenarian in a sentence?
Perhaps the interior of the Antarctic continent may yield a crop of tricentenarians, since, according to Herodotus, the most wonderful things are generally found at the extremities of the earth.
What part of speech is tricentenarian?
Tricentenarian is a noun.
What is the plural of tricentenarian?
The plural of tricentenarian is tricentenarians.

Words near tricentenarian in the dictionary

  1. tricennia
  2. tricennial
  3. tricennium
  4. tricenniums
  5. tricent
  6. tricentenarian
  7. tricentenarians
  8. tricentenaries
  9. tricentenary
  10. tricentennial
  11. tricentennials

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