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Methuselah

name · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • CMU ARPABET: M AH0 TH Y UW1 Z AH0 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 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”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Planet Methuselah, Methuselah Planet, Genesis, Planet Genesis, Genesis Planet

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Imperial

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A small pattern that takes many generations to stabilize.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: B-heptomino, Herschel, pi-heptomino, R-pentomino, switch engine

7

noun

Meaning 7

a man who is very old

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: old man, greybeard, graybeard

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: man, adult male, oldster, old person, senior citizen, golden ager

Narrower terms: codger, old codger, old-timer, oldtimer, gaffer, old geezer, antique, patriarch

8

noun

Meaning 8

(Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: patriarch

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مَتُوشَلَخ (matūšalaḵ) — Biblical character
  • Asturian: Matusalén — Biblical character
  • Basque: Matusalen — Biblical character
  • Central Bikol: Matusalen — Biblical character
  • Bulgarian: Матусал (Matusal) — Biblical character
  • Catalan: Matusalem — Biblical character
  • Cherokee: ᎻᏚᏏᎳ (midusila) — Biblical character
  • Chinese Mandarin: 瑪土撒拉 /玛土撒拉 (Mǎtǔsǎlā) — Biblical character
  • Czech: Metuzalém — Biblical character
  • Esperanto: Metuŝelaĥ — Biblical character
  • Finnish: Metusalem — Biblical character
  • Finnish: Metuselah — Biblical character
  • French: Mathusalem — Biblical character
  • Galician: Metuxalén — Biblical character
  • German: Methusalem — Biblical character
  • Greek: Μαθουσάλας (Mathousálas) — Biblical character
  • Ancient Greek: Μαθουσάλα (Mathousála) — Biblical character
  • Ancient Greek: Μαθουσάλας (Mathousálas) — Biblical character
  • Gujarati: મથૂશેલાહ (mathūśelāh) — Biblical character
  • Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Məṯūšélaḥ) — Biblical character
  • Hindi: मतूशेलह (matūśelah) — Biblical character
  • Hungarian: Matuzsálem — Biblical character
  • Indonesian: Metusalah — Biblical character
  • Italian: Matusalemme — Biblical character
  • Japanese: メトシェラ (Metoshera) — Biblical character
  • Kashubian: Metuszelach — Biblical character
  • Korean: 므두셀라 (Meudusella) — Biblical character
  • Latin: Mathusael — Biblical character
  • Macedonian: Матусал (Matusal) — Biblical character
  • Macedonian: Метуза́лем (Metuzálem) — Biblical character
  • Māori: Matutaera — Biblical character
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Metusalem — Biblical character
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Metusjalah — Biblical character
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Metusalem — Biblical character
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Metusjalah — Biblical character
  • Occitan: Matusalèm — Biblical character
  • Old English: Matusael — Biblical character
  • Persian: متوشالح (matušâlah) — Biblical character
  • Polish: Matuzalem — Biblical character
  • Polish: Metuszelach — Biblical character
  • Portuguese: Matusalém — Biblical character
  • Romanian: Metusala — Biblical character
  • Romanian: Matusalem — Biblical character
  • Russian: Мафусаи́л (Mafusaíl) — Biblical character
  • Serbo-Croatian: Мету̀залем — Biblical character
  • Serbo-Croatian: Metùzalem — Biblical character
  • Spanish: Matusalén — Biblical character
  • Spanish: Mathusalam — Biblical character
  • Tibetan: མེ་ཐུ་ཟི་ལཱ། (me thu zi lā) — Biblical character
  • Ukrainian: Мафусаї́л (Mafusajíl) — Biblical character
  • Walloon: Matîssalé — Biblical character
  • Welsh: Methwsela — Biblical character
  • Welsh: Methusela — Biblical character
  • Yiddish: מתושלח (mesushelekh) — Biblical character
  • Yoruba: Mẹ̀túsélà — Biblical character
  • Hungarian: matuzsálem — person or thing that has lived to a very old age
  • Portuguese: matusalém — person or thing that has lived to a very old age
  • Bulgarian: Матусал (Matusal) — wine bottle of 6 litres