centaine
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
centaine f (plural centaines)
- a hundred or so, about a 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 the plural) hundreds (in arithmetic)
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “centaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.