centuryful

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noun

An amount that arises from or occurs over the course of a century.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nouncenturyful (plural centuryfuls)

plural centuryfuls

  1. An amount that arises from or occurs over the course of a century.

    Treat yourself to a centuryful of fascination.

    1981, The Magazine Antiques - Volume 119, page 864
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    Besides, here 's a chance to take in three centuryfuls of history at a gulp, already canned.

    1924, Thomas Morris Longstreth, The Lake Superior Country, page 167

    It is obvious that a whole centuryful of people cannot really be either "right" or "wrong."

    1942, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 54, page 627

    One moment, then, Mozart wrote such great music that his own age would have none of it; the next moment he achieved this greatness through being one of a centuryful of busily and profitably and successfully employed composers.

    1949, Bernard H. Haggin, Music in the Nation, page 10

    A centuryful of the town's past life is piled up and squeezed into it.

    1979, Ricardo Landeira, Critical Essays on Gabriel Miro, page 113

Origin

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