supercentenarian en · NOUN
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Etymology
From super- (“beyond, more than”) + centenarian (“100-year old”), q.v.
Meanings
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A person that is at least 110 years old.
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: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, as I have said, the term "age".
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, Obstetrics, Physiology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Public Health and News., volume 1, London: Edward Thomas, page 10:
- (broadly, dated) Synonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old, especially someone well over age 100.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| super-centenarian | alternative | lexicographic | |
| supercentenarians | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (11)
pt supercentenário (A person that is at least 110 years old) · nl superoudere (A person that is at least 110 years old) · cmn 超級人瑞 /超级人瑞 (A person that is at least 110 years old) · fi 110 vuotta täyttänyt (A person that is at least 110 years old) · pl superstulatek (A person that is at least 110 years old) · fi vähintään 110-vuotiaaksi elänyt (A person that is at least 110 years old) · pt supercentenária (A person that is at least 110 years old) · tr süper asırlık (A person that is at least 110 years old) · it supercentenario (A person that is at least 110 years old) · ru супердолгожитель (A person that is at least 110 years old) · fr supercentenaire (A person that is at least 110 years old)