centaine
French
Etymology
cent + -aine
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ̃.tɛn/
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Noun
centaine f (plural centaines)
- hundred, about a hundred, about one hundred
- une période de plusieurs centaines d'années
- a period of several hundred years
- Même si je perdais la plupart de mes livres, il m'en resterait au moins une centaine, sinon plus.
- Even if I lost most of my books, I'd still have at least about a hundred left, if not more.
- (in plural) hundreds (in arithmetic)
Related terms
- cent
See also
- cinquantaine
- dizaine
- douzaine
- huitaine
- quarantaine
- quinzaine
- soixantaine
- trentaine
- vingtaine
Further reading
- “centaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- enceinta