All English words - page 891

Meanings of Centenaries:

noun

The hundredth anniversary of a significant event.

Usage examples:

The society has just celebrated its centenary

adjective

Relating to a hundredth anniversary.

Usage examples:

The centenary year of the artist's birth

Meanings of Centenary:

noun

The hundredth anniversary of a significant event.

Usage examples:

The society has just celebrated its centenary

adjective

Relating to a hundredth anniversary.

Usage examples:

The centenary year of the artist's birth

Meanings of Centenier:

noun

More generally: any officer in command of a body of approximately one hundred soldiers; the leader of a unit or body of militia. compare "centurion". now rare (historical in later use).

Meanings of Centennial:

adjective

Relating to a hundredth anniversary.

Usage examples:

Centennial celebrations

noun

A hundredth anniversary.

Usage examples:

The show is a celebration of the museum's centennial

Meanings of Centennials:

noun

A hundredth anniversary.

Usage examples:

The show is a celebration of the museum's centennial

adjective

Relating to a hundredth anniversary.

Usage examples:

Centennial celebrations

Meanings of Centennium:

noun

A period of a hundred years; a century. also (occasionally): a celebration of the completion of a century; a centenary.

Meanings of Center:

noun

The point that is equally distant from every point on the circumference of a circle or sphere.

Usage examples:

She was so angered by this thought that she had changed forms and was halfway to the center of the …

verb

Occur mainly in or around (a specified place).

Usage examples:

The textile industry was centred in lancashire and yorkshire

proper noun

A region of central france, including the cities of orleans, tours, and chartres.

Meanings of Centerboard:

noun

A pivoted board that can be lowered through the keel of a sailing boat to reduce sideways movement.

Usage examples:

The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds ineffic…

Meanings of Centerboards:

noun

A pivoted board that can be lowered through the keel of a sailing boat to reduce sideways movement.

Usage examples:

The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds ineffic…

Meanings of Centered:

verb

Occur mainly in or around (a specified place).

Usage examples:

The textile industry was centred in lancashire and yorkshire

adjective

Placed or situated in the centre.

Usage examples:

He had nothing to offer on whether the selectric balls duplicated the superscripts found on word, o…

suffix

Giving the most attention to a particular type of person

Usage examples:

People-centred management policies, a user-centred approach to web design

Meanings of Centerfold:

noun

The two middle pages of a magazine, often taken up by a single illustration or feature.

Usage examples:

Pull-out-and-keep centrefolds on superior quality paper

Meanings of Centerfolds:

noun

The two middle pages of a magazine, often taken up by a single illustration or feature.

Usage examples:

Pull-out-and-keep centrefolds on superior quality paper

Meanings of Centering:

verb

Occur mainly in or around (a specified place).

Usage examples:

The textile industry was centred in lancashire and yorkshire

noun

The action or process of placing something in the middle of something else.

Usage examples:

I love the intensity of a whirlpool's centring of things.

Meanings of Centerless:

adjective

Without a centre; having no centre.

Meanings of Centerline:

noun

A real or imaginary line through the centre of something, especially one following an axis of symmetry.

Meanings of Centerpiece:

noun

An ornament or display placed in the middle of a dining table.

Usage examples:

Noelle lifted her eyes from the table's centerpiece, a flower display.

Meanings of Centerpieces:

noun

An ornament or display placed in the middle of a dining table.

Usage examples:

Noelle lifted her eyes from the table's centerpiece, a flower display.

Meanings of Centers:

noun

The point that is equally distant from every point on the circumference of a circle or sphere.

Usage examples:

She was so angered by this thought that she had changed forms and was halfway to the center of the …

verb

Occur mainly in or around (a specified place).

Usage examples:

The textile industry was centred in lancashire and yorkshire

proper noun

A region of central france, including the cities of orleans, tours, and chartres.

Meanings of Centerward:

noun

The part or area near the centre. only in prepositional phrases, especially "to (the) centreward".

adverb

Towards or in the direction of the centre; = centrewards .

adjective

Occurring or moving towards or near the centre; that is situated or positioned near the centre.

Meanings of Centerwise:

adverb

Towards the centre; with regard to the centre.

Meanings of Centesimal:

adjective

Relating to division into hundredths.

Usage examples:

We therefore calculated this variable as the difference between mean breeding latitude and mean win…

Meanings of Centesimate:

verb

To punish (a group of people) by executing one in every hundred. also in extended use.

Meanings of Centesimation:

noun

With reference to military punishment: the selection by lot of every hundredth person for execution.

Meanings of Centesimo:

noun

A former monetary unit of italy, worth one hundredth of a lira (used only in calculations).

Usage examples:

But this was still meant to be a year in which every centesimo was being watched.

Meanings of Centesimos:

noun

A former monetary unit of italy, worth one hundredth of a lira (used only in calculations).

Usage examples:

But this was still meant to be a year in which every centesimo was being watched.