Definitions for centuries
cen·turies

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1. centuries(Noun)

   Plural form of century.

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1. Centuries

   of Century

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'centuries' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2767

How to pronounce centuries?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of centuries in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of centuries in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of centuries in a Sentence

1. Albert Schweitzer:

   The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

2. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

   A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

3. Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett:

   At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

4. Leonid Tibilov:

   Today's political reality is such that we must make our historic choice and be reunited with brotherly Russia so that we can ensure the security and success of our republic and people for many centuries, the referendum, the positive outcome of which I have no doubt, will allow us to unite our people.

5. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   All well-written e-mails are basically very short and to-the-point.Shakespeare had said it most appropriately centuries ago "Brevity is soul of the wit"; which applies to e-mails of 21st century perfectly. In my view, the secret of a good e-mail is that it has a good beginning as well as a good ending, with both being pretty close to each other.

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