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centuries

  • 1 century

    ['sen əri]
    noun - plural centuries
    1) (a (period of a) hundred years: the 19th century; for more than a century.) öld
    2) (in cricket, a hundred runs: He has just made his second century this year.) hundrað stig

    English-Icelandic dictionary > century

  • 2 labour

    ['leibə] 1. noun
    1) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) (erfiðis)vinna
    2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) verkamenn
    3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) hríðir
    4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) Verkamannaflokkurinn
    2. verb
    1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) vinna, strita
    2) (to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.) erfiða, paufa
    - laboriously
    - laboriousness
    - labourer
    - labour court
    - labour dispute
    - labour-saving

    English-Icelandic dictionary > labour

  • 3 sage

    [sei‹] I noun
    (a plant whose leaves are used as flavouring in cooking.) salvía
    II 1. noun
    (a wise man: the sages of past centuries.) spekingur
    2. adjective
    (wise: sage advice.) spakur, viturlegur

    English-Icelandic dictionary > sage

  • 4 the Black Death

    noun (the plague that killed large numbers of people in Europe in the 14th to 18th centuries)

    English-Icelandic dictionary > the Black Death

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