Centimillennium

Quick meaning: Centimillennium is a noun meaning (rare) A period of time consisting of one hundred thousand years.

Meaning

(rare) A period of time consisting of one hundred thousand years.

Example Sentences

I see no reason not to consider Jackson the text of choice for the next millennium, or at least the next centimillennium.

Do the millennia and the centimillennia dash between us and this dream? Must the sun be extinguished and reignited a thousand times?

A Millennium consists of one thousand years. / A Decamillennium is ten thousand years. /[…]/ A Centimillennium embraces a period of one hundred thousand years.

To dig down through the layers of anthropology, to compare spokeshave and arrowhead, awl and drill – embedded codices – from the abandoned shelters of the earth, to hobnob with millennia and to quote centimillennia with the same sort of respect as was previously accorded to the aristocracy, is to cite the modern quality.

Word Forms

• centimillennia

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include millennium, decimillennium, millenary, decamillennium, yearthousand, quincentennium.

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