The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
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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.a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
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…
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(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "acce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.A person coetaneous with another; a contemporary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.of Contemporary
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Living or being at the same time; contemporary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Running or moving rapidly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: belonging, present, time, contemporary, leaders.A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because the…
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