quarter-century

English

Etymology

From quarter- + century.

Noun

quarter-century (plural quarter-centuries)

  1. A period of twenty-five years.
    • 1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace:
      I spent my second quarter-century
      Losing what I had learnt at university
      And refusing to take in what had happened since []

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