multicentenarian

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ centenarian

Noun

multicentenarian (plural multicentenarians)

  1. One who is at least 200 years old.
    • 1962, William Edward Bohn, I remember America, page 36:
      In Shaw's perfect world of the multicentenarians, life has been reduced to a blank.
    • 2005, Ronald Blythe, The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age, →ISBN, page 12:
      To be seventy or eighty was to be as 'full of years' as a multicentenarian Old Testament prophet.
    • 2009, The Economist - Volume 391, Issues 8626-8637, page 42:
      He held the record, but there seem to have been plenty of other multicentenarians around at the time, including Noah and old Adam himself.
    • 2014, Greg Bear, Queen of Angels, →ISBN:
      Vacancies were becoming more and more rare as rejuvenators plied their controversial trade, turning good citizens into multicentenarian eloi.
    • 2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN:
      Should we worry about a world of stodgy multicentenarians who will resist the innovations of ninety-something upstarts and perhaps ban the begetting of pesky children altogether?
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