half-century

Noun

Meaning

a period of 50 years

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

half century

Synonyms

fifty fifties fiftieth semicentennial 50th semicentury

Hypernyms

period period of time time period

Related terms

quarter-century

Examples

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget. Irena Sendler

Two world wars have destroyed in a few years the material and spiritual capital accumulated by centuries of work. The nineteenth century had hoped to turn man, by virtue of education, into a reasoning being: a half-century of ferocity has proved that a cruel, primitive beast still resides in him. André Maurois

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month. Michael Shermer

Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century. Jeffrey Eugenides

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. Lord Mountbatten

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. Mary Augusta Ward

Close letter words and terms

Half-caftan half-canned half-caste half-century milestone half-chair half-chance