TURN OF THE CENTURY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("turn of the century" is a kind of...):

age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)

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