centuries

Meaning

plural of century

century

1. A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
2. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
3. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
4. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
5. A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
6. A score of one hundred points.
7. A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
8. (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

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Translations

siglos

Jahrhunderte

قرون

siècles

secoli

eeuwen

séculos

القرون

yüzyıl

segles

αιώνες

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛn.t͡ʃə.ɹiz/