Centuries-long

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lasting for centuries. not-comparable

    "No city in the world has a more varied history and interest, and in none can better be traced the centuries-long line of steady progress from barbarism to civilisation."

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multicentury

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"This was part of a centuries-long program of cultural genocide that culminated in the physical genocide of the Holocaust."

Etymology

From centuries + -long.

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