CENTRIES Antonyms

• how long something has existed

• an era of history having some distinctive feature

• a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

• a prolonged period of time

• a late time of life

• begin to seem older; get older

• grow old or older

• make older

• a period of 10 years

• the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system

• the longest division of geological time

• an immeasurably long period of time

• (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

• a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages

• (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

• all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

• group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

• the normal time between successive generations

• a stage of technological development or innovation

• a coming into being

• the production of heat or electricity

• the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

• the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)

• an amount of time

• the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

• (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

• a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

• the end or completion of something

• the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations