LUSTRUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lustrum mean? 

• LUSTRUM (noun)
  The noun LUSTRUM has 2 senses:

1. a period of five years

2. a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census

  Familiarity information: LUSTRUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUSTRUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of five years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("lustrum" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("lustrum" is a kind of...):

ceremony (the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion)

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)

Derivation:

lustrate (purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials)