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multi-century

multi-century is the alternative form of multicentury.

Meaning of multicentury

Adjective

multicentury (not comparable)

  1. Occurring over multiple centuries.
    • Dr. Weber and her colleagues are the latest custodians of the Beal seed viability experiment: a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate.2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2021
    Synonyms:
    centuries-long

Questions about multi-century

What is multi-century the alternative form of?
Multi-century is the alternative form of multicentury.

Words near multi-century in the dictionary

  1. multi-carbon
  2. multi-celled
  3. multi-cellular
  4. multi-center
  5. multi-centre
  6. multi-century
  7. multi-colored
  8. multi-coloured
  9. multi-component
  10. multi-culti
  11. multi-cultis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: multi-century (page history and authors); multicentury (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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