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Century

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Decade 70% connected

A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

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Decennary 70% connected

A period of ten years.

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Decennium 70% connected

A period of ten years.

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Millenary 70% connected

Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

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Millennium 70% connected

A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is…

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C 92% connected

The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale o…

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Hundred 92% connected

The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score.…

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