[
US
/sɛnˈtʊɹiən/
]
[ UK /sɛntʃˈɔːɹiən/ ]
[ UK /sɛntʃˈɔːɹiən/ ]
NOUN
- (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers
How To Use centurion In A Sentence
- Leigh Centurions step into the cauldron of the new National League One with a tough double header awaiting them over the Easter holiday.
- Slowly the world started to leak in to her mind, her eyes started to identify shapes; she could see the centurions crowded around her whispering.
- Centurions took their title from the fact that they commanded a century.
- But the supervising centurions kept on barking, barking, barking to strike hard and strike accurately, and as the process proceeded down the line of decuries it became more workmanlike, quicker. Fortune's Favorites
- In Colchester museum, the tombstone of a Roman centurion stands a few feet above the spot where he had lain for centuries, a poignant bridging of time and space.
- The Roman centurion can return and enforce the evacuation but he can't open up responses.
- Both the blacksmith, my grandfather on my mother's side, and my father had been centurions and both were retired, but the Legion is something that never leaves you and Remus stood a fair chance.
- This text from Acts is probably a synopsis of a sermon given by Peter for the benefit of the Roman centurion, Cornelius, who was a person of faith.
- He was dressed like a centurion, with titanium armor protecting his every body part.
- In response, imperial military personnel were dispatched: four commanders, chiliarchs, and centurions from the capital were each given 30 skilled cavalry troops to patrol trouble spots around Liangxiang.