Centenarian

Tom will be a centenarian next year.

Asked what her doctor thought about her longevity, the centenarian replied: "I don't have a doctor. He died."

Tom is a centenarian.

The average age of these 203 centenarians was 102 years 5 months and 25 days.

He proposed the formation of the Louisiana Live Oak Association, whose members would be trees at least a hundred years old. First among the centenarians he listed was the Locke Breaux oak, the largest tree he knew, measuring 10.7 m (35 ft.) in circumference, 22.8 m (75 ft.) tall, with a spread of 50.6 m (166 ft.) in 1932.

Centenarians may become the norm, rather than rarities who generate a headline in the local newspaper.