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LUSTRUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lustrum" is a kind of...):
ceremony (the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion)
Domain category:
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
Domain region:
capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)
Derivation:
lustrate (purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A period of five years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("lustrum" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
