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CENTURION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does centurion mean?
• CENTURION (noun)
The noun CENTURION has 1 sense:
1. (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers
Familiarity information: CENTURION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("centurion" is a kind of...):
warrior (someone engaged in or experienced in warfare)
Domain category:
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
Domain region:
capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)
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