Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
center . - noun A contracted form of
cemetery . - noun A former spelling of
sentry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
sentry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
sentry .
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Examples
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How do you explain that the first decade of the 21st centry is the warmest on record?
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America emerged from the Cold War a half-centry later as the most ideological of all industrial democracies in the world.
Scary Stuff grrm 2010
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It is time to voted the older Repubicans and Democratic out of Washinton if we won't change becasue these old fools are never going to change in come into the 21 centry.
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I shoot both of them and have no compaints after half a centry of hunting (I will admit, I did have to replace a weakening detent spring on my 90 year old Mauser action after about 40-50,000 rounds).
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I shoot both of them and have no compaints after half a centry of hunting (I will admit, I did have to replace a weakening detent spring on my 90 year old Mauser action after about 40-50,000 rounds).
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How can such an old grumpy granpa Mccain lead this complicated 21st centry world, when he spent his youth in a different era??
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His archetype, ofcourse, isderived from Superman, who was himself inspired by the turn-of-the-centry Phillip Wylie novel “Gladiator,” hence the designation.
Dynamo 5 #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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I guess that one of the areas that has come to the forefront in the 21st centry is “culture”, partly because we have realised that in the 1980s-90s the emphasis on communicative language teaching and the individual, was lacking something.
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Barbara has turned 75! three quarters of a centry so we baked her cake and made some sandwitches and told her to invite some people to dinner.
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The banker-bard Rogers (in Italy) was told a similar story concerning a widow of the Lambertini house (xivth centry).
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