Usually means: Poem composed of borrowed lines.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word cento:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CENTO: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cento (FE), cento: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cento: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CENTO: Acronym Finder
  2. cento: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cento: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cento)

noun:  A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

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