centurion

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/sɛnˈtjʊəɹ.i.ən/(UK)
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/sɛnˈtjʊəɹ.i.ən/(UK) · /sɛnˈtʃʊəɹ.i.ən/(UK) · /-ɔːɹ.i.ən/(UK) · /sɛnˈtjʊɹ.i.ən/(US) · /sɛnˈtʊɹ.i.ən/(US) · /-ɚ.i.ən/(US)

Definition of centurion

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (historical)An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.
    ““Man,” said the largest, most protective of the Praetorian guard, her lover, no doubt, and her peroxide-blond centurion, “for an apostle of peace you sure are filled up with war.””
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noun

  1. (historical)An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.
    ““Man,” said the largest, most protective of the Praetorian guard, her lover, no doubt, and her peroxide-blond centurion, “for an apostle of peace you sure are filled up with war.””
  2. A player who scores a century.
  3. (US)A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed one hundred night landings on an aircraft carrier.

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Etymology

From Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”).

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