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Definition of centuries : of Century

Synonyms:

hours, minutes, periods, decades, millennia, years, semesters, epochs, days, months, weeks, eras, lifetimes, ages, generations, terms, seconds, times, milliseconds, microseconds

Usage examples:

• Even thus it was three centuries ago. - "The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1563-64", John Lothrop Motley.
• A thousand years more, we are told, and the visitor will view the " Horseshoe" Fall from the upper end of the Third Sister Island, and the marvellous canvas of Colin Hunter will be as meaningless as Hennepin's picture of two centuries and more ago. - "The Niagara River", Archer Butler Hulbert.
• Ever the same thoughts come that have been written down centuries and centuries. - "The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies", Walter Besant.