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cento
1[ sen-toh ]
noun
- a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- anything composed of incongruous parts; conglomeration.
- Obsolete. a patchwork.
CENTO
2[ sen-toh ]
noun
- a former organization (1959–79) for economic and military cooperation, established as successor to the Baghdad Pact, and comprising Great Britain, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. The U.S. had affiliate status.
cento
1/ ˈsɛntəʊ /
noun
- a piece of writing, esp a poem, composed of quotations from other authors
CENTO
2/ ˈsɛntəʊ /
acronym for
- Central Treaty Organization; an organization for military and economic cooperation formed in 1959 by the UK, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey as a successor to the Baghdad Pact: disbanded 1979
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Other Words From
- cen·ton·i·cal [sen-, ton, -i-k, uh, l], adjective
- cen·to·nism [sen, -tn-iz-, uh, m], cen·to·ni·za·tion [sen-tn-, uh, -, zey, -sh, uh, n], noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
This, then, the reader must always keep in mind when he is examining for himself any examples of cinque-cento work.
By the best sculptors it is always used with this symbolic meaning, by the cinque cento sculptors as an ornament merely.
Various insects, like everything else in the world, occur in cinque cento work; grasshoppers most frequently.
I must observe here, that the "Lament of Tasso" is, in fact, a cento taken from Tasso's minor poems.
Not far from the before-mentioned building we come upon the “Cento Camarelle,” a prison consisting of a multitude of small cells.
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