TURN OF THE CENTURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turn of the century mean? 

• TURN OF THE CENTURY (noun)
  The noun TURN OF THE CENTURY has 1 sense:

1. the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century

  Familiarity information: TURN OF THE CENTURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURN OF THE CENTURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("turn of the century" is a kind of...):

age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)

 Context examples 

In their study, the researchers compared the responses of barramundi larvae in marine tanks with different CO2 levels: those predicted at the turn of the century, against current day CO2 levels.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)