supercentenarian
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See also: super-centenarian
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From super- (“beyond, more than”) + centenarian (“100-year old”), q.v.
Noun
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., 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".
- 2024 June 11, Alex Williams, “Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- 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.
- (loosely) Synonym of centenarian: a person more than 100 years old.
Derived terms
Translations
A person more than 110 years old
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References
- “supercentenarian, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
