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cen·te·nar·i·an /ˌsentəˈneəriən $ -ˈner-/ noun [countable] OLD/NOT YOUNGsomeone who is 100 years old or older 百岁老人,百岁以上老人Examples from the Corpuscentenarian• It was there that the scenes of Dustin as a centenarian were to be filmed.• To a centenarian from a less hasty era, the change can not but seem for the worse.• The existence of organisms still living after millenia make mere centenarians seem insignificant.• The present number of centenarians will not be known until the publication of the 1991 census.cen·te·nar·i·an nounChineseSyllable 100 or someone who old is Corpus years older |