centenariann.adj.
/ˌsɛntᵻˈnɛːrɪən/, U.S. /ˌsɛn(t)əˈnɛriən/ A. n.
A person who has reached the age of one hundred; a person who (or (occasionally) an animal or thing which) is one hundred years old or older.
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the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun]
one-year-old?1609
cinquanter1611
sexagenariana1646
septuagene1657
quintagenarian1687
threescore1721
septuagenarian1744
centenarian1747
seven-year-old1762
septuagenary1792
centenary1800
nonagenarian1804
sexagenary1814
octogenarian1815
nine-year-old1828
octogenary1828
semi-centenarian1828
quinquagenarian1830
quadragenarian1839
seventeen-year-old1858
70-year-old1870
twenty-firster1912
1747 S. Boyse Hist. Rev. Trans. Europe I. 80 This Year two Pictures of Centenarians were brought to the King of France at Compeigne.
1760 tr. L'amour a-la-Mode i. ii. 5 Must Nobody else be allow'd to see that I am beautiful and young? Must I be a Centenarian in the Eyes of every Man besides?
1856 Sat. Rev. 2 210/1 Two-thirds of these centenarians being women.
1877 D. M. Wallace Russia viii. 123 From the new born babe to the centenarian.
1894 Standard 15 May 5/2 In a neighbouring village another [tortoise] was reputed to be a centenarian.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 38/2 If you acquire a sahuaro, or giant cactus, big enough to bloom, you may be certain it is a centenarian.
1976 Star (Sheffield) 30 Nov. 7/7 Centenarian Mr Thomas Cambell, who earlier this year celebrated his hundredth birthday in style, has died.
2012 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Oct. 38/3 In 2000, they identified a region of Sardinia's Nuoro province as the place with the highest concentration of male centenarians in the world.
B. adj.† 2. Taking part in a centenary celebration. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. Aged a hundred years or more; (also) lasting a hundred years or more.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age
seven?1440
yearing1451
year-old1556
yeared1583
seventy1590
two-year1596
quinquagenarian1603
septuagenary1605
twelvea1616
thirty1618
three-yearling1621
one-eared1645
quadragenarious1656
trimenstruous1656
septennian1662
sexagenarian1663
sexagenary1663
octogenarya1696
seven-year-old1713
quinquagenary1715
yearling1729
septuagesimal1781
septuagenarian1793
octogenarian1818
fortyish1821
seventeen-year-old1821
three-year-old1825
week-old1826
centenarian1828
day-old1831
70-year-old1832
quadragenarian1834
century-old1836
nonagenarian1877
teenaged1913
thirtyish1925
1828 Morning Chron. 20 Dec. A shore as full of vagaries and twists..as the gnarled trunk of a centenarian oak.
1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 276 The almost centenarian Bishop of Chichester.
1871 Echo 15 Aug. 1/2 Tales of centenarian longevity.
1909 E. L. Greene Landmarks Bot. Hist. i. 80 During as many summers of his centenarian career he had observed the foliage of many garden leguminosæ.
1989 Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 1/6 Last year there were 210 centenarian men compared to 100 in 1984.
2014 Burlington (N. Carolina) Times-News 9 Mar. e1/5 In the period from 1980 to 2010, the centenarian population had a larger percentage increase than the total population.
b. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a centenarian or centenarians.
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the world > people > person > person of specific age > [adjective]
one-year-old?1609
seven-year-old1713
seventeen-year-old1821
nine-year-old1828
centenarian1854
twentyish1928
thirty-something1981
1854 J. R. Lowell in Putnam's Monthly May 477/2 He is expected to ask a blessing and return thanks at the dinner, a function which he performs with centenarian longanimity.
1897 Morning Post 27 Oct. 2/5 A centenarian tea party... Permission was given..to allow a tea party to take place in the ward occupied by Emily Stevens on the occasion of her attaining her 102nd birthday.
1939 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 14 Mar. 6/1 (heading) Centenarian wisdom.
1950 Times 6 June 4/7 Centenarian party in Teutoburger Wald... Fifty centenarians and near-centenarians..made an outing to the Hermann memorial.
2010 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 17 June (Health & Science section) 21 ‘Centenarian lifestyles’ of eating in moderation, doing physical activity daily, and having the characteristics of optimism, resilience and sociability.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [adjective] > commemorated > for centenary
centenarian1864
centenarized1866
1864 Realm 13 Apr. 7 One of Burns' centenarian bards.
Derivatives
ˌcenteˈnarianism n. the state or fact of being a centenarian.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age
yearOE
scorea1400
seventeena1568
threescorea1616
jubileea1640
military age1656
legal age1658
tecnogoniaa1676
sixty1717
forty1732
fifty1738
seven-year-old1762
teen1789
septuagenarianism1824
sexagenarianism1824
day-old1831
seventeen-year-old1858
centenarianism1863
roaring forties1867
twenties1874
leaving age1875
school-leaving age1881
octogenarianism1883
reading age1906
three1909
teenage1912
eleven-plus1937
1863 Morning Post 2 Jan. 3/3 I have now the pleasure to send you a note of further centenarianism.
1968 Punch 13 Nov. 688/2 A man must have something to live for, if it's only a date. People in their nineties are kept going by the lure of centenarianism.
2014 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 1 Sept. 6 A stylish cane the only real sign of her entry into centenarianism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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