"quarter-century" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace",
          "text": "I spent my second quarter-century\nLosing what I had learnt at university\nAnd refusing to take in what had happened since […]",
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        "A period of twenty-five years."
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          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "çerekshekull"
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          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
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          "word": "čtvrtstoletí"
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          "code": "nl",
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          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "kwarteeuw"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
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          "word": "kvaronjarcento"
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          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
          "word": "veerandsajand"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
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          "word": "quart de siècle"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Vierteljahrhundtert"
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shihanseiki",
          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
          "word": "四半世紀"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ćwierćwiecze"
        },
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          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
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          "word": "štvrťstoročie"
        }
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  "word": "quarter-century"
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      "word": "veerandsajand"
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      "word": "quart de siècle"
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      "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
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      "word": "Vierteljahrhundtert"
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      "roman": "shihanseiki",
      "sense": "period of twenty-five years",
      "word": "四半世紀"
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