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centurion
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Latin centurionem (nominative centurio ), "Roman army officer, head of a centuria" (a group of one hundred); see century .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Each of these buildings once housed a century of eighty men and its centurion . ▪ First she posed as a Roman centurion and did a bit of torture. ▪ That nice, young centurion I sent over with the olive oil last week. ▪ The centurion ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers. 2 (context cricket English) A player who scores a century.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Centurion is a 2010 British historical action-war film directed by Neil Marshall , loosely based on the disappearance of the Roman Empire's Ninth Legion in Caledonia in the early second century AD. The film stars Michael Fassbender , Dominic West , and ...
Usage examples of centurion.
What would the Centurion do to the ancient druidess when his Witcheyes went missing?
I were sitting in one of the local taverns frequented by the garrison centurions, waiting for Equus to come and join us and watching the antics of some of the other customers in the place.
The yellow horsehair plumes of the centurions seemed to glow, and the column of the Helvetii staggered below on the plain as men pointed and shouted a warning.
But the senior centurion revealed nothing, for the khagan had slightly misread his man.
Under the reign of Severus and his son, he obtained the rank of centurion, with the favor and esteem of both those princes, the former of whom was an excellent judge of merit.
His legate Aurelius suggested that Gnaeus Mallius split the experienced centurions up evenly among his seven Head Count legions, and that means no more than 40 percent of the centurions in any one legion have undergone anything like battle conditions.
They mostly consisted of soldiers and centurions, provincial and rural nobodies who at one time or another had encountered him, been helped by him, and asked to become his clients.
There were plenty among the centurions of the two veteran legions in Capua who had served under Sulla somewhere or other, and even more among the retired centurions who had re-enlisted to train troops.
Picenum, there to mingle with the centurions left behind to keep on training Pompeian clients as legionaries, and subject himself to a rigorous program of military training well before he could assume the toga of manhood.
In no mood to supervise his tribunes and centurions doing something as fundamental as pitching fortified camp, Sulla himself walked on alone into the deserted town.
Titus Didius, Metellus Pius, Lucullus and the centurions saluted Sulla reverently, gave him shy smiles, and got themselves away.
Pompeius Rufus walked wherever he liked, finding himself greeted by everyone from centurions to rankers in a most friendly manner.
Its regular officers were centurions, of which it possessed some sixty.
Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, their standards loaded down with honors, their share of booty sufficient to give the rankers Third Class status in the Centuries, their centurions Second Class status.
I want your junior legates to fill in their idle moments by finding trustworthy men among my centurions, and use them to monitor feelings in my legions.