centenarian

plural centenarians

1. One who or that which is at least 100 years old.

   The average age of these 203 centenarians was 102 years 5 months and 25 days.

   1894 October 19, “Sex and Long Life”, in Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Summary of the Press Throughout the World on All Important Current Topics, volume LXVI, number 1,726, London

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   With an estimated worldwide population of some 40,000 centenarians, only 22 percent are male.

   1994, Peter Matthews, Norris McWhirter (editors), The Guiness Book of World Records 1994, page 158

   He proposed the formation of the Louisiana Live Oak Association, whose members would be trees at least a hundred years old. First among the centenarians he listed was the Locke Breaux oak, the largest tree he knew, measuring 10.7 m (35 ft.) in circumference, 22.8 m (75 ft.) tall, with a spread of 50.6 m (166 ft.) in 1932.

   2003, Kit Anderson, Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 136

   Centenarians may become the norm, rather than rarities who generate a headline in the local newspaper.

   2014 September 18, Gregg Easterbrook, “What Happens When We All Live to 100?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN

   Synonyms: centenary, hundred-year-old, supercentenarian

comparative more centenarian · superlative most centenarian

1. Aged 100 years or more; extremely old.

   Synonyms: hundred-year-old, centenary

2. Of or relating to centenarians or a centenary celebration.