| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| centurion |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cen·tu·ri·on |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s n-t r  - n, -tyr- |
| NOUN: | The commander of a century in the Roman army. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin centuri , centurin-, from centuria, group of a hundred. See century.
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