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Meaning of supercentenarian | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. A person that is at least 110 years old.
  2. Synonym of centenarian: a person that is at least 100 years old, especially someone well over age 100.
    broadly, dated

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Examples

“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".”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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