supercentenarian

See also: super-centenarian

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Etymology

From super- (“beyond, more than”) +‎ centenarian (“100-year old”), q.v.

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supercentenarian (plural supercentenarians)

  1. A person that is at least 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".
    • 2024 June 11, Alex Williams, “Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110”, in The New York Times‎[2], →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.
  2. (loosely, dated) Synonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old, especially someone well over age 100.

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