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Definition of Centenarian
1. Adjective. Being at least 100 years old.
2. Noun. Someone who is at least 100 years old.
Definition of Centenarian
1. a. Of or relating to a hundred years.
Definition of Centenarian
1. Noun. One who is at least 100 years old. One who is past his or her tenth decade. ¹
2. Adjective. Being at least 100 years old. Beyond one's tenth decade. ¹
3. Adjective. Of or relating to a centenarian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Centenarian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centenarian
Literary usage of Centenarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Centenarians; and the Duration of the Human Race: A Fresh and Authentic by Thomas Emley Young (1899)
"The word " centenarian " was unknown to Johnson. iv. Entertaining some uncertainty
upon the ... The formation of centenarian is thus abundantly justified. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"The Spanish ambassador will attend to congratulate the illustrious centenarian
in the name of the government of his native country, and addresses will be ..."
3. A Text-book of True Temperance by Michael Monahan (1909)
"Cornaro, the centenarian. Louis Cornaro, the famous Venetian centenarian, who
lived in the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries, found twelve ounces of food per ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"A PRETTY centenarian. (Mr. Bull's Song on Miss Columbia's Hundredth Birthday. )
"The chief authorities of the several States of this Union have resolved to ..."