century

Meaning

1. A period of 100 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 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) 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. (informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

Synonyms

centennial

era

age

centenary

period

hundred

epoch

time

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C

C

chronicles

historical record

100

hundred years

100 years

geological period

aeon

one C

annals

arrange

date

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institutions

secular

term

Hyphenated as

cen‧tu‧ry

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛnt͡ʃʊɹi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: centurie

In summary

From Middle English centurie (“a count of one hundred (of anything); a division of the Roman army; century; a division of land”), from Old French centurie, from Latin centuria, from centum (“one hundred”). The most common modern use is a shortening of century of years.

Sentences

During the nineteenth century , Australian architects were inspired by developments in England .

The Muppets gave puppetry a whole new look and life in the mid-twentieth century .