quarter-century

1. 1.

   a period of 25 years

   Broadertime period

   Part ofcentury

Questions about quarter-century

What does quarter-century mean?

quarter-century means "a period of 25 years".

How many syllables are in quarter-century?

quarter-century has 5 syllables: quar-ter--cen-tu-ry. The stress falls on "cen".

Is quarter-century a common word?

quarter-century is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.