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half-century n pl -ies
1. a period of 50 years during the past half-century 2. a. a score or grouping of 50 a half-century of points b. (as modifier) as I near the half-century mark ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations half-century [hɑːfˈsentjʊrɪ] N (Cricket) → cincuenta tantos mpl How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of service to America. 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. 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. |
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