mə̇ˈth(y)üz(ə)lə also -üs(- noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: after Methuselah, Biblical patriarch represented as having lived 969 years (Gen 5:27)
1. : a person of great age
one of the other Methuselahs, reminded … of his own aches and miseries — Mary McCarthy
2. : an oversize wine bottle holding about six and a half quarts