Crossword clues for centenarian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centenarian \Cen`te*na"ri*an\, a. Of or relating to a hundred years. -- n. A person a hundred years old.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1805, "person 100 years old," from centenary + -ian. As an adjective, "pertaining to a person 100 years old," recorded from 1806.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Being at least 100 years old. Beyond one's tenth decade. 2 Of or relating to a centenarian. n. One who is at least 100 years old. One who is past his or her tenth decade.
WordNet
adj. being at least 100 years old
n. someone who is at least 100 years old
Wikipedia
A centenarian is a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldwide are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. A supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Even rarer is a person who has lived to age 115 – there are only 40 people in recorded history who have indisputably reached this age, of whom only Emma Morano-Martinuzzi, Violet Brown, Nabi Tajima and Chiyo Miyako are still living. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide. As life expectancy is increasing across the world, and the world population has also increased rapidly, the number of centenarians is expected to increase quickly in the future. According to the UK ONS, one-third of babies born in 2013 in the UK are expected to live to 100.
Usage examples of "centenarian".
It is a rather remarkable fact in connection with the examples of longevity cited that in almost every instance the centenarian is a person in the humblest rank of life.
But an abstemious life will drag even the old body along to centenarian limits in a tolerable state of preservation and usefulness.
Similar to the case of the centenarian who had seen Henry Jenkins was that of James Horrocks, who was born in 1744 and died in 1844.
It is reported that quite recently a Chinese centenarian passed the examination for the highest place in the Academy of Mandarins.
Froments, and thus beside the surging sea of corn there rose a royal park of centenarian trees.
Candid and smiling, those all but centenarian heroes triumphed in the overflowing florescence of their race.
On the other hand, a writer in the Strand Magazine points out that an insurance investigator some years ago gathered a list of 225 centenarians of almost every social rank and many nationalities, but the majority of them Britons or Russians.
The preponderance of centenarians of the supposed weaker sex has led to the revival of some amusing theories tending to explain this phenomenon.
Setting aside these theories, however, the census of French centenarians is not devoid of interest in some of its details.
Gazette has kept track of 378 centenarians, of whom 143 were men and 235 were women.
A writer to the Strand Magazine tells of 14 centenarians living in Great Britain within the last half-dozen years.
That polite, grasshopper-thin voice came from the oldest of the admirals, the centenarian Hajime Shoji.
Without pretending to rival the alleged cases of life prolonged beyond the middle of its second century, such as those of Henry Jenkins and Thomas Parr, we can make a good showing of centenarians and nonagenarians.
Here those ancient Swiss of the twentieth century had lived to be centenarians thanks to the tranquillity of the towering mountains and lush green valleys.
Mehevi acted as supreme lord over the place, spending the greater portion of his time there: and often when, at particular hours of the day, it was deserted by nearly every one else except the verd-antique looking centenarians, who were fixtures in the building, the chief himself was sure to be found enjoying his 'otium cum dignitate'--upon the luxurious mats which covered the floor.