Quarter-century

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A period of twenty-five years.

    "In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed."

  2. 2
    a period of 25 years wordnet

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"That was more than a quarter-century ago."

Etymology

From quarter + century.

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