Usually means: Period of five years duration.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. lustrum: Merriam-Webster
  2. lustrum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lustrum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lustrum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lustrum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lustrum, lustrum: Wordnik
  7. lustrum: Wiktionary
  8. lustrum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lustrum: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Lustrum, lustrum: Dictionary.com
  11. Lustrum (novel), Lustrum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Lustrum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. lustrum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. lustrum: Rhymezone
  15. Lustrum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. lustrum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Lustrum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. lustrum: FreeDictionary.org
  19. lustrum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. lustrum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lustrum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. lustrum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lustrum: A Word A Day
  2. lustrum: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lustrum)

noun:  (historical) A lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census.
noun:  (by extension, literary) Synonym of quinquennium: Any 5-year period.

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