supercentenarian definition

English

Alternative forms

• super-centenarian

Etymology

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

Noun

supercentenarian (plural supercentenarians)

1. A person more than 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".

2. (inexact) Synonym of centenarian: a person more than 100 years old.

Derived terms

• semisupercentenarian

Translations

References

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