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adjective
1.
pertaining to or having lived 100 years.
noun
2.
a person who has reached the age of 100.
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Centenarian
has a plethora of syllables.
So is floccinaucinihilipilification. Does it mean:
| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
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Word Origin & History
centenarian
1846 (n.), from L. centenarius "containing a hundred," from centeni "one hundred each," from centum "one hundred" (see hundred). As an adj., recorded from 1849.
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