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Struldbrug.

Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead.

10 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead.

    literary
Where this word comes from

From Struldbrug, the name given to a fictional race of senile immortals inhabiting the island of Luggnagg who are legally declared dead at the age of 80 and continue to age, coined by Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

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