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centurion
/sɛnˈtjʊɹ.i.ən/
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What does centurion mean?
noun
- A player who scores a century.
- A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed one hundred night landings on an aircraft carrier.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (historical) An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.
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IPA pronunciation
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This first chronometer behaved very well on the outward voyage in the Centurion.
And a Roman centurion is reported to have said at this sight, that he never knew servants allowed to play the masters, unless at the Saturnalia.
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But the centurion—I mean the adjutant—was not satisfied.
That calm centurion felt no such serious misgivings.
He became hated by the whole world, and also feared by those he had around him, to such an extent that he was murdered in the midst of his army by a centurion.