centuries-long
centuries-long adjective: lasting for centuries.
Adjective
centuries-long (not comparable)
- Lasting for centuries.
- No city in the world has a more varied history and interest, and in none can better be traced the centuries-long line of steady progress from barbarism to civilisation.1942, Harry Parker, Britain Afloat and Ashore: Pictures and Engravings of Our National Life and Achievements. […] (publication number twenty-one), London: The Print Collectors’ Club, […], pages 20–21
- For he had not only handed in his resignation as Chief of Staff; he had gone a step further. He had left the Army, given up his title of general. He had done something that had scarcely ever happened during the centuries-long history of the Prussian Army.1942, Curt Ries, “The Betrayal of a Caste”, in The Self-Betrayed: Glory and Doom of the German Generals, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 213
- Synonyms:
- multicentury
Synonyms of centuries-long
Forms of centuries-long
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Origin of centuries-long
From centuries + -long.
Questions about centuries-long
- What does centuries-long mean?
- Centuries-long means lasting for centuries.
- What part of speech is centuries-long?
- Centuries-long is an adjective.
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