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QUINQUENNIUM (quinquennia)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quinquennium mean? 

QUINQUENNIUM (noun)
  The noun QUINQUENNIUM has 1 sense:

1. a period of five yearsplay

  Familiarity information: QUINQUENNIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUINQUENNIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of five years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

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


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