Lustrum [noun]
Definition of Lustrum:
five of something
Synonyms of Lustrum:
● Cinque
● Pentacle
● Pentagon
● Limerick
● Pentad
● Quincunx
Opposite/Antonyms of Lustrum:
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Sentence/Example of Lustrum:
This review was called the closing of the lustrum, because it was accompanied with sacrifices and purifications named lustrations.
The term lustrum was applied to the interval of five years between two censuses.
Then I sicken at the idea of having Strauss in my head and on my hands for a lustrum, instead of saying good-bye to him in a year.
A meditative man in his sixth lustrum can be very happy with pruning-hook and shears among his young trees.
Why, you will have a million, not in a decade, but in a lustrum.
Hector Garret had his girl wife at Otter, and very sunny her existence was for the lustrum of that honeymoon.
Thus it is, that nine-tenths of the Catos you mention are forgotten, even by name, every political lustrum.
I rejoin that I know not but you may have cut Blackwood—even as a subscriber—a whole lustrum ago.
Within the first lustrum of his residence there Hearn had grasped the truth, and expressed it in a metaphor.
According to Plutarch, a cat placed in a lustrum denoted the moon, illustrating the mutual symbology.