Methuselah

n. 玛士撒拉(<<圣经>>故事人物), 非常高寿的人

词形变化

Methuselahs 复数 Methuselahs

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.

    引申义
  2. 2.

    Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”).

name
  1. 1.

    The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.

  2. 2.

    A planet in the PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; a circumbinary planet, officially named PSR B1620-26 b, orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).

    玛土撒拉

    天文

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

oldman graybeard greybeard

上位词 5

man golden ager old person oldster senior citizen

下位词 6

antique old-timer patriarch gaffer codger old codger

相关短语

Methuselah Planet as old as Methuselah Planet Methuselah

词源

From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ). The planet's name stems from the fact that, at the time of its discovery in 2003, it was the oldest known planet.

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