half-century

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half-century

n pl -ies

1. a period of 50 years during the past half-century

a. a score or grouping of 50 a half-century of points

b. (as modifier) as I near the half-century mark

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Noun

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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half-century [hɑːfˈsentjʊrɪ] N (Cricket) → cincuenta tantos mpl

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century compact disc compact disk Cumberland Gap nonchalant nonchalantly			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			half-and-half dressing half-arsed half-asleep half-assed half-awake half-baked half-ball half-binding half-birthday half-blind half-blood half-blooded half-blue half-board half-boot half-bottle half-bound Half-breadth plan half-bred half-breed half-brother half-buried half-butt half-caste half-cell half-century half-circle Half-clammed half-closed half-clothed half-cock half-cocked half-completed half-concealed half-conscious half-convinced half-cooked half-covered Half-cracked half-crazed half-crown half-cup half-cut half-day half-dead Half-deck Half-decked half-deserted half-digested half-dollar half-done			half-bred half-bred half-breed half-breed Half-Breed (disambiguation) Half-Breed (disambiguation) half-breeds half-breeds half-brick wall half-bridge Half-Bridge Commutating Forward half-bridge series-resonant buck-boost inverter half-brother half-brother Half-brother and half-sister Half-brothers Half-brothers half-buried half-butt half-butts Half-cast Half-cast half-caste half-caste half-castes half-castes half-cell half-cell half-cell potential half-centuries half-century half-circle Half-clammed half-close half-closed half-clothed half-cock half-cocked half-cocks Half-Commission Man Half-Commission Men half-completed half-concealed half-conscious half-convergency half-convinced half-cooked half-course half-covered Half-cracked half-crazed half-crown half-crown half-crown Half-crowns Half-crowns Half-crowns half-cup half-cut

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