century

[ sen-chuh-ree ]

/ ˈsɛn tʃə ri /

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noun, plural cen·tu·ries.

a period of 100 years.

one of the successive periods of 100 years reckoned forward or backward from a recognized chronological epoch, especially from the assumed date of the birth of Jesus.

any group or collection of 100: a century of limericks.

(in the ancient Roman army) a company, consisting of approximately 100 men.

one of the voting divisions of the ancient Roman people, each division having one vote.

(initial capital letter) Printing. a style of type.

Slang. a hundred-dollar bill; 100 dollars.

Sports. a race of 100 yards or meters, as in track or swimming, or of 100 miles, as in bicycle racing.

Cricket. a score of at least 100 runs made by one batsman in a single inning.

Origin of century

1525–35; < Latin centuria unit made up of 100 parts, especially company of soldiers, equivalent to cent(um) 100 + -uria, perhaps extracted from decuria decury

OTHER WORDS FROM century

half-cen·tu·ry, noun, plural half·-cen·tu·ries.

Words nearby century

centuple, centuplicate, centurial, centuried, centurion, century, century plant, centésimo, ceo, ceorl, cep

Example sentences from the Web for century

For more than a century, Americans have been fretting about these sorts of ghosts.

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Finally free of Japanese interference, Korea elected its first autonomous government in almost half a century.

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Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.

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Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.

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In the 12th century the same gospels were again copied by pious hands into the Kentish dialect of the period.

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Even the religion of this modern century bears the deep impress of the trade-mark, which calendars its financial value.

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The church of Notre-Dame, partly modern, preserves a Gothic portal of the 16th century and a graceful tower of the same period.

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But the Dafydd of Scotland came more than a century earlier, being born at the end of the twelfth century.

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Herrera did not publish his results, which are slavishly chronological in their method, till half a century later (1601-15).

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British Dictionary definitions for century

century

/ (ˈsɛntʃərɪ) /

noun plural -ries

a period of 100 years

one of the successive periods of 100 years dated before or after an epoch or event, esp the birth of Christ

a score or grouping of 100to score a century in cricket
mainly US (as modifier)the basketball team passed the century mark in their last game

(in ancient Rome) a unit of foot soldiers, originally 100 strong, later consisting of 60 to 80 men See also maniple

(in ancient Rome) a division of the people for purposes of voting

(often capital) a style of type

Word Origin for century

C16: from Latin centuria, from centum hundred

Idioms and Phrases with century

century

see turn of the century.

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century

noun, plural cen·tu·ries.

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century

noun, plural cen·tu·ries.

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