Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

supercentenarian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: su-per-cente-nar-i-an
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person that is at least 110 years old.

noun

Synonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old, especially someone well over age 100.

Dated

Example Sentences

"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"."
"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."

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Prefix: super

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

supercentenarians (plural) super-centenarian (alternative)

Derived Forms

semisupercentenarian

Synonyms

centenarian

Questions

What does supercentenarian mean?: A person that is at least 110 years old.
Where does supercentenarian come from?: From super- (“beyond, more than”) + centenarian (“100-year old”), q.v.

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