Cento Definition

sĕntō
centos
noun
A literary or musical work made up of passages from other works.
Webster's New World
Anything made up of badly matched parts.
Webster's New World

A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.

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Other Word Forms of Cento

Noun

Singular:
cento
Plural:
centones, centos

Origin of Cento

  • From Latin cento ‘patchwork garment’.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin centō patchwork

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cento Sentence Examples

  • Steam tramways .run to Vignola, Pieve di Cento and Malalbergo.

  • Semper's style was a growth from the classic orders through the Italian Cinque Cento.

  • That of the Cinque Cento is positive, defined, mundane.

  • The largest known chestnut tree is the famous Castagno di cento cavalli, or the chestnut of a hundred horses, on the slopes of Mount Etna, a tree which, when measured about 1780 by Count Borch, was found to have a circumference of 190 ft.

  • Such were the Cento Nuptialis of Ausonius, the sketch of Biblical history which was compiled in the 4th century by Proba Falconia, wife of a Roman proconsul, and the hymns in honour of St Quirinus taken from Virgil and Horace by Metellus, a monk of Tegernsee, in the latter half of the 12th century.

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Words Starting With

CCECEN

Words Ending With

OTONTO

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