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Cenozoic: Definition and part of speech

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Cenozoic

  1. a. Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Census: Definition and part of speech

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Census

  1. n. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
  2. n. A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; — usually made once in five years.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cent: Definition and part of speech

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Cent

  1. n. An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; — so called because 100 points won the game.
  2. n. A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
  3. n. A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.