Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who is 100 years old or older.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a centenary, or to a person one hundred years old.
- n. A person a hundred years old or older.
Wiktionary
- n. One who is at least 100 years old. One who is past his or her tenth decade.
- adj. Being at least 100 years old. Beyond one's tenth decade.
- adj. Of or relating to a centenarian.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or relating to a hundred years.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being at least 100 years old
- n. someone who is at least 100 years old
Etymologies
- Coined around 1800 as centenary + -an. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin centēnārius, of a hundred; see centenary. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is a rather remarkable fact in connection with the examples of longevity cited that in almost every instance the centenarian is a person in the humblest rank of life.”
“A centenarian is a person who has lived beyond 100 years.”
“The centenarian was a union leader, fish and chip shop worker and insurance collector during a varied career in the city.”
“COHEN: You got check out this Web site: www. bumc.bu.edu, that's the site for Boston University and once you're there, do a search on "centenarian" and you'll find the new England Centenarian Study where you can find more on the secrets to living to 100 and beyond.”
“The Journal goes on to speak of perhaps the most remarkable 'centenarian' of the nineteenth century: --”
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
“I look forward to an article here about a centenarian raping a College fresher.”
“I look forward to an article here about a centenarian raping a College fresher.”
“Magnificent fleshy growths, they were enough to make any centenarian proud.”
“Individuals celebrating their 100th birthday today would be entitled to demand, as my great aunt did: "I'm a centenarian, get me out of here!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘centenarian’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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centi-
one hundredth; hundred
centilitre, centiliter, centipede, centenarian, cent, centennial, centurion, centenary, centesimal, centesimation
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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-an
belonging to; of; characteristic of; born in; living in; believing in; following
American, Mohammedan, Muhammedan, diocesan, Italian, octogenarian, centenarian
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Big Book #2 List
absolution, restitution, contrition, moratorium, nautical, nirvana, pandemonium, perennial, symposium, dialectic, dipsomaniacal, ecumenical and 117 more...
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drseatbelt's Words
bilious, centenarian, droll, palliative, cortege, stultify, polysemy, suffuse, lambent, timorous, aegis, modicum and 236 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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InstantWordPower
sesquipedalian, optometrist, quadruped, biped, bimonthly, bifocal, bicuspid, bivalve, quadraphonic, quadruplet, quadruple, quadrilateral and 107 more...
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Jheti's Words
ordinarily, diacritic, intrinsic, coalesce, salient, valence, crenellations, expurgate, relapse, disconsolate, matriculation, corrugated and 128 more...
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Charlie
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carbuncle, chimaera, catamite, carphology, chancre, coprolalia, callipygian, concupiscence, coeval, codling, clitic, cojones and 39 more...
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It Takes All Kinds
pornogenarian, adessenarian, altitudinarian, attitudinarian, catilinarian, centenarian, ciplinarian, concubinarian, culinarian, disciplinarian, lunarian, mercenarian and 7 more...
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Panaceaseless
Various concepts that might surround The Fountain of Youth.
yearling, revirescent, juvenescent, neanimorphism, horapthia, voice lift, paedomorphism, shunamitism, torschlusspanik, roborant, rejuvenation, ageless and 63 more...
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Age of Aquarius Words
carpe diem, de rigueur, ad hominem, bowdlerize, tantalize, excogitate, exogamy, endogamy, logophile, neophobia, lexiphanic, abdicate and 69 more...
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