Meanings
plural supercentenarians · alternative super-centenarian
- A person that is at least 110 years old.
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.
2024 June 11, Alex Williams, “Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110”, in The New York Times, →ISSN1 more example
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".
1856, Edwin Canton, “Observations on the Arcus Senilis, or Fatty Degeneration of the Cornea, Part VI”, in Thomas Wakley, editor, The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Physiology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Public Health and News., volume 1, London: Edward Thomas, page 10 - broadlydatedSynonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old, especially someone well over age 100.
Synonyms: centenarian
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old, especially someone well over age 100.
Origin
From super- (“beyond, more than”) + centenarian (“100-year old”), q.v.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 超級人瑞 /超级人瑞
- 超級人瑞 /超级人瑞 (chāojí rénruì)A person that is at least 110 years old
Dutch superoudere
- superoudereA person that is at least 110 years old
Finnish vähintään 110-vuotiaaksi elänyt, 110 vuotta täyttänyt
- vähintään 110-vuotiaaksi elänytA person that is at least 110 years old
- 110 vuotta täyttänytA person that is at least 110 years old
French supercentenaire
- supercentenaireA person that is at least 110 years old
Italian supercentenario
- supercentenarioA person that is at least 110 years old
Polish superstulatek
- superstulatekA person that is at least 110 years old
Portuguese supercentenário, supercentenária
- supercentenárioA person that is at least 110 years old
- supercentenáriaA person that is at least 110 years old
Russian супердолгожитель
- супердолгожитель (superdolgožitelʹ)A person that is at least 110 years old
Turkish süper asırlık
- süper asırlıkA person that is at least 110 years old
Cite this entry
supercentenarian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercentenarian
“supercentenarian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercentenarian. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “supercentenarian,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercentenarian.
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