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- English Word Centaurea Definition A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).
- English Word Centaury Definition A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.
- English Word Centenarian Definition Of or relating to a hundred years.
- English Word Centenarian Definition A person a hundred years old.
- English Word Centenaries Definition of Centenary
- English Word Centenary Definition Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.
- English Word Centenary Definition Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial.
- English Word Centenary Definition The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.
- English Word Centenary Definition A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.
- English Word Centennial Definition Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
- English Word Centennial Definition Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
- English Word Centennial Definition Lasting or aged a hundred years.
- English Word Centennial Definition The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
- English Word Centennially Definition Once in a hundred years.
- English Word Center Definition A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
- English Word Center Definition The middle or central portion of anything.
- English Word Center Definition A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
- English Word Center Definition The earth.
- English Word Center Definition Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.
- English Word Center Definition A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.