Meanings
plural quarter-centuries
- 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 […]
1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace1 more example
In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed.
1957 July 28, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Six Decades of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 471
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Translations
Czech čtvrtstoletí
- čtvrtstoletíperiod of twenty-five years
Dutch kwarteeuw
- kwarteeuwperiod of twenty-five years
Esperanto kvaronjarcento
- kvaronjarcentoperiod of twenty-five years
Estonian veerandsajand
- veerandsajandperiod of twenty-five years
French quart de siècle
- quart de siècleperiod of twenty-five years
German Vierteljahrhundtert
- Vierteljahrhundtertperiod of twenty-five years
Japanese 四半世紀
- 四半世紀 (shihanseiki)period of twenty-five years
Polish ćwierćwiecze
- ćwierćwieczeperiod of twenty-five years
Slovak štvrťstoročie
- štvrťstoročieperiod of twenty-five years
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quarter-century. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarter-century
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