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Synonyms for centuries
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sen-chuh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn tʃə ri |
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Définition of centuries
Origin :- 1530s, "one hundred (of anything)," from Latin centuria "group of one hundred" of things of one kind (including a measure of land and a division of the Roman army, one-sixteenth of a legion, headed by a centurion), from centum "hundred" (see hundred) on analogy of decuria "a company of ten."
- Used in Middle English from late 14c. as a division of land, from Roman use. The Modern English meaning is attested from 1650s, short for century of years (1620s). The older, general sense is preserved in the meaning "score of 100 points" in cricket and some other sports. Related: Centurial.
- As in date : noun point in time; particular day or time
- As in age : noun a period of time
- This is what had happened to the word during the course of many centuries.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- But they were an old race, and they were worn out by centuries of hard work.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- From the viewpoint of centuries, the questions that come to us are narrowed and few.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Sometimes he has spent centuries in darkness, where he could neither read nor write.
- Extract from : « Time's Portraiture » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- As Donald says, there's no reason why it should hang there for centuries and fall on him today.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Through the centuries of war men have only played at commerce.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- It stands upon a site which has been consecrated to the service of God for many centuries.
- Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
- We have no reason to believe that the caves had been used for centuries.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
- The dreaded name of Iroquois is potent, even across the centuries.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- And what for centuries has it been to differing but always identical mortals?
- Extract from : « Bride of the Mistletoe » by James Lane Allen
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