centenarian
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- noun
- /ˌsɛn.təˈnɛr.i.ən/
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centenario
- In this village alone, there are six centenarians who have lived for over a hundred years.
And like Mike Fremont, the centenarian says, make your life about service.
- And like Mike Fremont, the centenarian says, make your life about service.
- And we only have to look to the Sardinians, centenarians in Sardinia, they regularly eat bread.
- Actually, we, we first started looking at all this when we started examining centenarians and octogenarians and others.
- I remember speaking to you about it last time as being such a key attribute of a successful centenarian was purpose.
- Now the difference between normal individuals and super centenarians is the difference between health span and lifespan.
- You know, centenarians and Blue Zones don't aren't born with, you know, crazy amounts of willpower.
Examples
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The Census Bureau estimates that by 2050, there will be more than a million centenarians in America.
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And like Mike Fremont, the centenarian says, make your life about service.
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I remember speaking to you about it last time as being such a key attribute of a successful centenarian was purpose.
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You would have to be a centenarian to remember what diabetes was like before the discovery of insulin in 1922.
Blog text (1) -
There had not been a centenarian in the parish since Queen Christina reigned.
Fiction book (1995) -
Steiner is one of six living centenarians in Sabetha.
Blog text (10) -
Shimane Prefecture had an estimated 743 centenarians per million inhabitants.
Blog text (18) -
According to the census, almost 25 percent of America's 50,000 centenarians live by themselves.
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
centenarian = hundred (transparent) = centen + arian
The word is composed of the combining form 'centen' (hundred) plus the agentive/person suffix '-arian', so the meaning 'person of a hundred (years)' is directly derivable.
Etymology
Centenarian comes from the Latin root cent meaning 'hundred', the same root you see in century and cent. So, a centenarian is someone who has reached 'a hundred' years old.