The word sesquidecade means 'a period of one and a half decades.' i.e. 15 years.
Note: Although the word is in use, we have yet to find it listed in any English dictionary.
Type your answer here... Forty years is 4 decades or two score years.
score and a half. or three decades. Also the period oft accorded to delineate a 'generation'
You may be thinking of a "score", as in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ('Four score and seven years ago' means 87 years ago.)It is also called two decades.
The Chinese, base on Taoist teaching is called a`lifetime`. The reason being, after the full cycle of the 12th animals in the Chinese lunar calender. The recycle period, from 61st will be call the new begining. They will celebrate by their family and relative with a big feast. That is call `coming of age` among their belief.
Translation: "I am 15 years old, and you?"
dodranscentennial
A period of 100 years is called a century.
A period of 10 years is called a decade.
A period of 100 years is called a century.
A period of ten years is a decade.
The period of 100 years is called a century. A period of 10 years is a decade, and 1000 years is a millennium.
1.5 decades (15 years does not have a specific name for that period of time.)
Type your answer here... Forty years is 4 decades or two score years.
75 years is equivalent to 3/4 of a century
It has no individual name
A period in football is called a quarter and is 15 minutes long.
a five-year period is a quinquennium