century : Idioms & Phrases


Century plant

  • noun tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
    American aloe; agave.
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  • (Bot.), the Agave Americana, formerly supposed to flower but once in a century; hence the name. See Agave.
Webster 1913

half-century

  • noun a period of 50 years
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Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres

  • . See under Century, and Hemisphere.
Webster 1913

quarter-century

  • noun a period of 25 years
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The Magdeburg Centuries

  • an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.
Webster 1913

turn of the century

  • noun the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century
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twentieth century

  • noun the century from 1901 to 2000
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