Experts have named the oldest known bristlecone pine "Methuselah." It is somewhere in the White Mountains of California. But it is not marked in any special way, so that people do not try to damage it.
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Methuselah
Synonyms for "methuselah" (80 found)
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Related words (40)
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10 entriesTranslations
57 translations across 44 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- Μαθουσάλα name (Biblical character)
- Μαθουσάλας name (Biblical character)
Arabic
1 entries- مَتُوشَلَخ name (Biblical character)
Asturian
1 entries- Matusalén name (Biblical character)
Basque
1 entries- Matusalen name (Biblical character)
Bikol Central
1 entries- Matusalen name (Biblical character)
Bulgarian
2 entries- Матусал name (Biblical character)
- Матусал noun (wine bottle of 6 litres)
Catalan
1 entries- Matusalem name (Biblical character)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎻᏚᏏᎳ name (Biblical character)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 瑪土撒拉 /玛土撒拉 name (Biblical character)
Czech
1 entries- Metuzalém name (Biblical character)
Esperanto
1 entries- Metuŝelaĥ name (Biblical character)
Finnish
2 entries- Metusalem name (Biblical character)
- Metuselah name (Biblical character)
French
1 entries- Mathusalem name (Biblical character)
Galician
1 entries- Metuxalén name (Biblical character)
German
1 entries- Methusalem name (Biblical character)
Greek
1 entries- Μαθουσάλας name (Biblical character)
Gujarati
1 entries- મથૂશેલાહ name (Biblical character)
Hebrew
1 entries- מְתוּשֶׁלַח name (Biblical character)
Hungarian
2 entries- Matuzsálem name (Biblical character)
- matuzsálem noun (person or thing that has lived to a very old age)
Indonesian
1 entries- Metusalah name (Biblical character)
Italian
1 entries- Matusalemme name (Biblical character)
Japanese
1 entries- メトシェラ name (Biblical character)
Kashubian
1 entries- Metuszelach name (Biblical character)
Korean
1 entries- 므두셀라 name (Biblical character)
Latin
1 entries- Mathusael name (Biblical character)
Macedonian
2 entries- Матусал name (Biblical character)
- Метуза́лем name (Biblical character)
Māori
1 entries- Matutaera name (Biblical character)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- Metusalem name (Biblical character)
- Metusjalah name (Biblical character)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- Metusalem name (Biblical character)
- Metusjalah name (Biblical character)
Occitan
1 entries- Matusalèm name (Biblical character)
Old English
1 entries- Matusael name (Biblical character)
Persian
1 entries- متوشالح name (Biblical character)
Polish
2 entries- Matuzalem name (Biblical character)
- Metuszelach name (Biblical character)
Portuguese
2 entries- Matusalém name (Biblical character)
- matusalém noun (person or thing that has lived to a very old age)
Romanian
2 entries- Matusalem name (Biblical character)
- Metusala name (Biblical character)
Russian
1 entries- Мафусаи́л name (Biblical character)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- Metùzalem name (Biblical character)
- Мету̀залем name (Biblical character)
Spanish
2 entries- Mathusalam name (Biblical character)
- Matusalén name (Biblical character)
Tibetan
1 entries- མེ་ཐུ་ཟི་ལཱ། name (Biblical character)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Мафусаї́л name (Biblical character)
Walloon
1 entries- Matîssalé name (Biblical character)
Welsh
2 entries- Methusela name (Biblical character)
- Methwsela name (Biblical character)
Yiddish
1 entries- מתושלח name (Biblical character)
Yoruba
1 entries- Mẹ̀túsélà name (Biblical character)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Tom is as old as Methuselah.
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I feel as old as Methuselah.
Source: tatoeba (12526356)
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
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