quarter-centuries
quarter-centuries is the plural of quarter-century.
Meaning of quarter-century
Noun
quarter-century (plural quarter-centuries)
- A period of twenty-five years.
- In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from...1957 July, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Six Decades of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 471
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- What is quarter-centuries the plural of?
- Quarter-centuries is the plural of quarter-century.
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