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half-century

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Noun1.half-century - a period of 50 years
period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
century - a period of 100 years
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On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of service to America.
Bill Clinton's Inaugural Address by Clinton, Bill View in context
He had his half-century before him instead of behind him, and he had come to Middlemarch bent on doing many things that were not directly fitted to make his fortune or even secure him a good income.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Little did the dusky children think that the puny slip with its two eyes only, which they stuck in the ground in the shadow of the house and daily watered, would root itself so, and outlive them, and house itself in the rear that shaded it, and grown man's garden and orchard, and tell their story faintly to the lone wanderer a half-century after they had grown up and died -- blossoming as fair, and smelling as sweet, as in that first spring.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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