supercentenarian

See also: super-centenarian

English

Alternative forms

• super-centenarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

supercentenarian (plural supercentenarians)

1. A person that is at least 110 years old.
   • 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.‎^[1], volume 1, London: Edward Thomas, page 10:

     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".

   • 2024 June 11, Alex Williams, “Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

2. (loosely) Synonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old.

Derived terms

• semisupercentenarian

Translations

A person that is at least 110 years old

• Dutch: superoudere m or f
• Finnish: vähintään 110-vuotiaaksi elänyt, 110 vuotta täyttänyt
• French: supercentenaire (fr) m or f
• Italian: supercentenario m
• Polish: superstulatek m
• Portuguese: supercentenário (pt) m, supercentenária f
• Turkish: süper asırlık m

References

• “supercentenarian, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.