The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
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a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
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Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper d…
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.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…
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.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 object…
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture.
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.Alt. of Medievalist
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern da…
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.ten 10s
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly…
Used in the same subject area: History, Chronology and periods.Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
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A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.Sheltered in a haven.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.The last and worst of the four ages of the world; -- considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000 years.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Age…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: prolonged, period, time, known, ages.One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages.
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