QUARTER-CENTURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quarter-century mean? 

• QUARTER-CENTURY (noun)
  The noun QUARTER-CENTURY has 1 sense:

1. a period of 25 years

  Familiarity information: QUARTER-CENTURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARTER-CENTURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of 25 years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("quarter-century" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Holonyms ("quarter-century" is a part of...):

century (a period of 100 years)