Quincentennium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quincentennium is a noun meaning (rare) A period of five hundred years, half a millennium.
Meaning
(rare) A period of five hundred years, half a millennium.
Example Sentences
In more leisurely days there were Egyptian millenia^([sic]), Greek and Roman quincentennia, and Spanish, French, and British centuries.
And Mr John Graham, editor of The New Shetlander and one of the most articulate ideologues of the 1967 revolution, reinterpreted the problem of “Social Change during the Quincentennium” (1469–1969) accordingly.
Word Forms
- quincentennia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include centimillennium, quincentenary, centennium, quincentennial, half-century, millennium.
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