Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Long-lived.
- n. One who has a long life; a macro-biote.
- Pertaining to Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, a writer who lived probably in the first part of the fifth century after Christ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having an exceptionally long life span.
Examples
“Vice-Consul, Mr. Goodall, who died about the normal age, seventy-seven: if this be safely passed man in Tenerife becomes a macrobian.”
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
“Nor would one say saponaceous for soapy, dyslogistic for uncomplimentary, or macrobian (or longevous) for long-lived.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘macrobian’.
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phrontistery - m
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Stick Around
annotine, lasting, durable, everlasting, permanence, stable, abiding, immortal, hibernaculum, continual, dwelling-place, abiding-place and 57 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Trump that synonym!
Better alternatives for common words.
ex cathedra, screed, de rigueur, palpable, wheedle, piebald, incongruity, cassandra, xantippe, ebullient, exuberant, fainéant and 178 more...
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Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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muliebrity, mulierose, marquetry, melioration, mendacious, metaphrase, mirabilia, mirabiliary, modish, monition, morigerate, mentation and 28 more...
Tweets
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bilby But really, the story I heard was that due to poltical reasons many nations refuse to recognise Macrobia and refer to only as FYROM, the Former Yeasty Republic of Microbia. Indeed in its earlier incarnation as simply Microbia the country was much smaller but in the process of attempting to acquire nuclear weapons it blew itself up. Feb 8, 2013
bilby *snort* Feb 8, 2013
qroqqa True dat. A lesser-known but equally interesting fact is that ancient Macrobia was named for its diet. The royal family having been particularly impressed by the fare at a macrobiotic restaurant they had patronized, they granted it a royal warrant, ordered that all their subjects should eat macrobiotic, and changed the kingdom's name to Macrobia. The country lasted until it was swallowed up by a coalition of neighbouring kingdoms Vegetaria, Atkinsia, and Eggandbeansia. Feb 8, 2013
han22 The origin of the word and meaning attached "macrobian" is incorrect. Macrobia was an ancient kingdom located on the Somali peninsula in the first millennium BC. The Macrobians were noted for their extraordinarily long lives, as it was not unusual for people to live to 120 years. So longevity was associated with these people. Feb 8, 2013