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ゼンセイキ
Meanings
Noun
1. last century; ancient times
Alt. forms
前ぜん世せい紀き
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ゼンセイキ
Pitch accent
ゼ
ンセ
イキ
Composed of
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
Composed of
antiquity; the previous era
period; Nihon-shoki
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
relic from an earlier age; something extremely outmoded
Examples (1 in total)
It is well known that up to the middle of the last century Japan was a feudal state.