quarter-century
quarter-century noun: a period of twenty-five years.
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
- I spent my second quarter-century
Losing what I had learnt at university
And refusing to take in what had happened since […]1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace
Forms of quarter-century
| plural | quarter-centuries |
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Origin of quarter-century
From quarter + century.
Questions about quarter-century
- What does quarter-century mean?
- Quarter-century means a period of twenty-five years.
- What part of speech is quarter-century?
- Quarter-century is a noun.
- What is the plural of quarter-century?
- The plural of quarter-century is quarter-centuries.
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