"Methuselah" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|he|מְתוּשֶׁלַח|tr=M'tušelaḥ}} Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), {{l|he|מְתוּשָׁלַח|tr=M'tušalaḥ}} מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Methuselah
  1. The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years. Categories (topical): Biblical characters Translations (Biblical character): Μαθουσάλα (Mathousála) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), Μαθουσάλας (Mathousálas) (Ancient Greek), مَتُوشَلَخ (matūšalaḵ) [masculine] (Arabic), Matusalén [masculine] (Asturian), Matusalen (Basque), Matusalen (Bikol Central), Матусал (Matusal) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Matusalem [masculine] (Catalan), 瑪土撒拉 (Chinese Mandarin), 玛土撒拉 (Mǎtǔsǎlā) (Chinese Mandarin), Metuzalém [masculine] (Czech), Metuŝelaĥ (Esperanto), Metusalem (Finnish), Metuselah (Finnish), Mathusalem [masculine] (French), Metuxalén [masculine] (Galician), Methusalem [masculine] (German), Μαθουσάλας (Mathousálas) [masculine] (Greek), מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Məṯūšélaḥ) [masculine] (Hebrew), Matuzsálem (Hungarian), Metusalah (Indonesian), Matusalemme [masculine] (Italian), メトシェラ (Metoshera) (Japanese), Metuszelach [masculine] (Kashubian), 므두셀라 (Meudusella) (Korean), Mathusael [masculine] (Latin), Матусал (Matusal) [masculine] (Macedonian), Метуза́лем (Metuzálem) [masculine] (Macedonian), Matutaera (Maori), Metusalem [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), Metusjalah [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), Metusalem [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Metusjalah [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Matusalèm [masculine] (Occitan), Mathusal [masculine] (Old English), متوشالح (matušâlah) (Persian), Matuzalem [masculine] (Polish), Metuszelach [masculine] (Polish), Matusalém [masculine] (Portuguese), Metusala [masculine] (Romanian), Matusalem [masculine] (Romanian), Мафусаи́л (Mafusaíl) [masculine] (Russian), Мету̀залем [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Metùzalem [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Matusalén [masculine] (Spanish), Mathusalam [masculine, obsolete] (Spanish), མེ་ཐུ་ཟི་ལཱ། (me thu zi lā) (Tibetan), Мафусаї́л (Mafusajíl) [masculine] (Ukrainian), Matîssalé [masculine] (Walloon), Methwsela [masculine] (Welsh), Methusela [masculine] (Welsh), מתושלח (mesushelekh) [masculine] (Yiddish), Mẹ̀túsélà (Yoruba)
    Sense id: en-Methuselah-en-name-3Pp-kwZM Disambiguation of Biblical characters: 57 20 15 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 38 15 13 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 30 29 11 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 31 31 12 Disambiguation of 'Biblical character': 62 38
  2. (planets) A planet in PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; the oldest planet discovered at the time of discovery in 2003; a circumbinary planet orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”). Categories (topical): Planets, Wine bottles Derived forms: as old as Methuselah, Methuselaic, Methuselan
    Sense id: en-Methuselah-en-name-tUXdjtiF Disambiguation of Wine bottles: 26 35 14 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 38 15 13 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 30 29 11 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 31 31 12 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 30 37 20 13 Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences, planets Synonyms: Planet Methuselah, Methuselah Planet, Genesis, Planet Genesis, Genesis Planet, PSR B1620-26 b, WD B1620-26 b, ** B1620-26 b, B1620-26b, PSR B1620-26 c, WD B1620-26 c, ** B1620-26 c, B1620-26c

Noun

Forms: Methuselahs [plural]
Etymology: From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|he|מְתוּשֶׁלַח|tr=M'tušelaḥ}} Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), {{l|he|מְתוּשָׁלַח|tr=M'tušalaḥ}} מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ) Head templates: {{en-noun}} Methuselah (plural Methuselahs)
  1. (by extension) Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age. Tags: broadly Translations (person or thing that has lived to a very old age): matuzsálem (Hungarian), matusalém [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-Methuselah-en-noun-f4T-9~hm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 38 15 13 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 30 29 11 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 31 31 12 Disambiguation of 'person or thing that has lived to a very old age': 94 6
  2. Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: methuselah (extra: large wine bottle)
    Sense id: en-Methuselah-en-noun-pIeYTdCW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 38 15 13 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 30 29 11 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 31 31 12

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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Methuselahs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Methuselah (plural Methuselahs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "old",
          "old"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "large wine bottle",
          "word": "methuselah"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "methuselah",
          "methuselah#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "person or thing that has lived to a very old age",
      "word": "matuzsálem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person or thing that has lived to a very old age",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "matusalém"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Methuselah"
  ],
  "word": "Methuselah"
}

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