quarter-century

noun

Etymology

From quarter + century.

  1. derived from centuria
  2. derived from centurie
  3. inherited from centurie
  4. compounded as quarter-century — “quarter + century

Definitions

  1. A period of twenty-five years.

    • I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university And refusing to take in what had happened since […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quarter-century. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA