supercentenarian
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See also: super-centenarian
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From super- (“beyond, more than”) + centenarian (“100-year old”), q.v.
Noun[edit]
supercentenarian (plural supercentenarians)
- A person more than 110 years old.
- 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.[1], volume 1, London: Edward Thomas, page 10:
- 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".
- (inexact) Synonym of centenarian: a person more than 100 years old.
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Translations[edit]
A person more than 110 years old
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References[edit]
- “supercentenarian, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.