Word for 100 years old

A century is a period of 100 years.

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What is a word for 100 years?

centennial

What do you call a 100 year old man?

A person who is 100 years old or older is a centenarian. Meanwhile, here are some other words for people who are not quite as old as centenarians: a person who is between 70 and 79 years old is a septuagenarian. a person who is between 80 and 89 years old is an octogenarian.

What is two hundred years called?

from The Century Dictionary. Consisting of or lasting two hundred years: as, a bicentennial period. Occurring every two hundred years. noun The two hundredth anniversary of an event; a bicentenary.

What is a 150 year anniversary called?

: a 150th anniversary or its celebration. Other Words from sesquicentennial Example Sentences Learn More about sesquicentennial.

What year did Canada turn 150?

2017

What are the anniversary years called?

These gifts vary in different countries, but some years have well-established connections now common to most nations: 5th Wood, 10th Tin, 15th Crystal, 20th China, 25th Silver, 30th Pearl, 35th Jade, 40th Ruby, 45th Sapphire, 50th Gold, 60th Diamond, and 70th Platinum.

What is 10 years of marriage called?

Traditionally, the 10th year of marriage is marked with tin or aluminum. Both materials represent the durability and flexibility needed to sustain a loving union. As far as jewelry and gemstones are concerned, diamond is the stone of choice for the tenth wedding anniversary.

How many years is a platinum anniversary?

Wedding Anniversaries Gifts and Names by Year

What does 12th anniversary mean?

Traditional: Silk or Linen Originally, the 12-year anniversary was represented by silk or fine linen. Think of it as the “treat yourselves” anniversary all about luxury and comfort. From soft silk robes to linen pillowcases, there are plenty of traditional gifts that still make timeless presents.

What color is 12th anniversary?

12th Anniversary: Jade, Opal, or Oyster White. 13th Anniversary: Citrine or White.

What is the symbol for 15 years of marriage?

Crystal is the traditional gift for a 15th wedding anniversary. It represents the clear and sparkling love between husband and wife. The modern gift is glass or a watch, thought by many to be a symbol of the time you’ve had—and plan to have—together.

What material is 12 years of marriage?

silk

What is 26 years of marriage called?

Q: What is the 26th wedding anniversary called? A: The 26th wedding anniversary is called the Picture Anniversary.

What is 17 years married called?

17th Wedding Anniversary – Furniture There’s no traditional gift for 17 years of marriage, but the modern version is furniture.

What color represents 25 years?

Silver

Historians of the crossword puzzle—yes, there are quite a few of them—generally date its first U.S. appearance to December 21, 1913, just about 100 years ago. That’s when Arthur Wynne of the New York World published what he called a “word-cross” in his paper’s Fun section. But a decade would go by before the crossword, as it was by then called—apparently due to a typesetter’s error—would become one of the biggest fads of the Roaring Twenties.

For that you might credit an aunt of the would-be publisher Richard Simon—she liked doing the crosswords in her newspaper and told him she wished someone would publish a book full of them. Simon arranged for his three-month-old publishing firm, Simon & Schuster, to do so in 1924—apparently with some trepidation. The firm printed only 3,600 copies and withheld its name from such a non-literary enterprise. It did, however, provide buyers with a free pencil.

How do you spell blockbuster? In no time the publisher had to put the book back on press; through repeated printings, it sold more than 100,000 copies. Soon a second collection followed, and then a third and a fourth. In 1924 and 1925 the crossword books were among the top 10 nonfiction bestsellers for the year, besting, among others, The Autobiography of Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan. Many more collections would follow.

Meanwhile, dictionaries started selling at an unprecedented clip, including a miniature version that could be worn like a wristwatch. The Los Angeles Public Library reportedly had to limit its crossword-obsessed patrons to five-minute turns with its dictionaries, and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad put dictionaries in its observation and club cars for the benefit of passengers.

The influence on the American vocabulary was audible. “Anybody you met on the street could tell you the name of the Egyptian sun-god or provide you with the two-letter word which meant a printer’s measure,” Frederick Lewis Allen recalled in his famous history of the 1920s, Only Yesterday. (The answers, presumably: “Ra” and “em.”) The Frederick (Maryland) Daily News took an especially optimistic view of the crossword’s impact in a 1924 editorial. It predicted that, “Thoughtful working of cross word puzzles can not fail to make the average American a more careful and fluent user of good English.”

Experts were also called upon to explain the craze. A Columbia University psychologist, for example, said that crossword puzzles satisfied 45 fundamental desires of the human species; Chicago’s health commissioner endorsed crosswords as a means of calming the nerves. But there was debate: The chairman of Maryland’s Board of Mental Hygiene worried that the puzzles “might easily unbalance a nervous mind” and even lead to psychosis. The New York Times derided crosswords as “a primitive sort of mental exercise,” and the Times of London ran an editorial about the fad headlined, “An Enslaved America.”

As early as 1925, many of the rules for how a puzzle should be constructed had been codified. Merl Reagle, who creates crosswords for the Washington Post and other major newspapers, cites a list of rules, published in one of Simon & Schuster’s early collections, that would be familiar to today’s puzzle buffs. The rules included:

— The pattern shall interlock all over.

— Only approximately one-sixth of the squares shall be black.

— The design shall be symmetrical.

— Obsolete and dialectic words may be used in moderation if plainly marked and accessible in some standard dictionary.…

— Abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes should be avoided as far as possible.

— …definitions may be of the safe and sane dictionary kind, may be literary or historical, may employ secondary meanings cleverly, may be legitimately funny.

Reagle believes that while puzzles have changed over the years, their basic appeal remains the same. “My theory is that it’s because of their interlocking nature,” he says. “Unlike a lot of other kinds of puzzles, every answer you get helps you get the next one.”

Indeed, of all the fads of the faddish 1920s—flagpole sitting, mah-jongg, dances like the Charleston—only crossword puzzles lasted. Even the two Timeses, of New York London, finally came around. They instituted their own puzzles, which dominate the field to this day.

How crosswords enriched the American vocabulary

The crossword craze of the 1920s was barely a year old when a magazine editor named Arthur Maurice noticed that words that had long ago fallen into disuse were suddenly popping up in everyday conversation. The words were mostly short and heavy on vowels. Maurice’s conclusion: “The constructive work of the cross-word puzzle lies in the awakening of the mind and tongue to the thousand and one words that have so long been dormant.”

Maurice compiled a list of 40 words, which the Literary Digest quoted in June 1925. Many of them are still very much with us. Here they are, in alphabetical order:

Abet, acute, adapt, amend, ape (as a verb), apt, aroma, asset, aver;

Ban and bare (as verbs);

Carp (as a verb), cite, curt, curtail;

Eke, elan, elate, emit, eon, etch, err;

Foment;

Goad;

Inert, ire;

Leer (as a verb);

Maim, mar;

Nee

Ooze, omit;

Pry;

Retard;

Sate, seer, sever, smudge (as a verb);

Terse;

Vat