Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A period of five years.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A period of five years.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Space of five years.

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  • noun A period of five years.

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  • noun a period of five years

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin quīnquennium : quīnque, quinque- + annus, year; see at- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin quīnquennium

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Examples

  • As Nafta begins its second quinquennium, much remains to be achieved and much remains to be said.

    Nafta At Five 2006

  • As Nafta begins its second quinquennium, much remains to be achieved and much remains to be said.

    Nafta At Five 2006

  • Net capital formation was very steady over the quinquennium

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 2003

  • Above all, net capital formation suffered an appalling collapse after 1929, falling in 1932 to a figure no less than 95 per cent below the average of the quinquennium 1925 − 1929.

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 2003

  • Anno gratis 1231, mense ver� Iulio, Petrus Wintoniensis episcopus, completo in terra sancta iam fere per quinquennium magnifice peregrinationis voto, reuersus est in Angliam, Kalendis

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Empire the first five years of his reign (the _quinquennium Neronis_) were a period of peace and good government, but for the Jews they brought little or no relief.

    Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927

  • Homeward by the way of South Street, admiring the slender concave bows of fine ships -- the _Mexico_ and the _Santa Marta_, for instance -- and privily wondering what were our chances of smelling blue water within the next quinquennium, we passed in mild and placid abandonment.

    Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

  • The young Nero was handsome and personally popular, and the opening years of his reign (_quinquennium Neronis_) were famous for good government and prosperity.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • For the rest of the Empire the first five years of his reign (the quinquennium Neronis) were a period of peace and good government, but for the Jews they brought little or no relief.

    Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914

  • The mild and enlightened administration of the earlier years of the new reign, the famous _quinquennium Neronis_, which was looked back to afterwards as a sort of brief golden age, may indeed be ascribed largely to Seneca's influence; but this influence was based on an excessive indulgence of Nero's caprices, which soon worked out its own punishment.

    Latin Literature 1902

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