Definition of Centuries

1. Noun. (plural of century) ¹

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Definition of Centuries

1. century [n] - See also: century

Lexicographical Neighbors of Centuries

centumvir
centumviral
centumvirate
centumvirates
centumviri
centumvirs
centuple
centupled
centuples
centuplication
centuplications
centupling
centurial
centuriate
centuried
centuries
centurion
centurions
centurium
century
century break
century breaks
century egg
century plant
century plants
centzontle
centzontles
cenuris
cenurosis
cenzontli

Literary usage of Centuries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam ( Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"... and during the course of the four centuries preceding the present, if we may judge by what has happened hoth in France and Great Britain, t ich of those ..."

2. Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ by Alfred Edersheim (1881)
"... half centuries ago, and the land J— / which now lies desolate — its bare, grey hills looking into ill-tilled or neglected valleys, its timber cut down, ..."

3. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"... of civilisation and queen of the fine arts, because of a new fact which was unknown to past centuries, namely, the isolation of the masses of the poor. ..."

4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"THE ROMAN EMPIRE HOW THE REPUBLIC OF ROME AFTER Centuries OF UNREST AND REVOLUTION BECAME AN EMPIRE WHEN the Roman armies returned from these many ..."

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