bicentenarian
English
Etymology
From bi- + centenarian.
Noun
bicentenarian (plural bicentenarians)
- One who or that which is between 200 and 299 years old.
- 1932 April 1, Arthur Harmount Graves, “Can We Bring Back the Chestnut?”, in The University of the State of New York: Bulletin to the Schools, volume 18, number 14, pages 215–216:
- It took a long time — sometimes 10 or 15 years — for the fungus to kill a tree, especially if it were one of the patriarchs we have described. Even today, right in the vicinity of New York City, a very few of these bicentenarians or tricentenarians are desperately holding on to a thread of life.
- 1992 November, Frederik Pohl, “Outnumbering the Dead”, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, volume 16, numbers 12 & 13 (whole 192 & 193), page 252:
- How long those lives can be expected to last is hard to say, because even the oldest persons around aren’t yet much more than bicentenarians (that’s the time since the procedures first became available), and they show no signs of old age yet.
- 2003, Sean P. Fodera, “Attached Please Find My Novel”, in Julie E. Czerneda, editor, Space Inc., DAW Books, page 184:
- My instincts told me he was exaggerating, but I had little personal experience with bicentenarians. We colonials shy away from age-defying treatments—a normal 125 always seemed a sufficiently lengthy life to most of us.
- 2006, Daniel Reid, The Tao Of Detox: The Natural Way to Purify Your Body for Health And Longevity, Simon & Schuster, published 2007, →ISBN:
- Altogether they located nearly two thousand living centenarians, some of whom were already well past 150 and on their way to becoming “bicentenarians.”
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