Century

Quick meaning: Century is a noun meaning A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

Meaning

A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

More Meanings

1. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
2. (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
3. (snooker) A score of one hundred points.
4. (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
5. (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
6. 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.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

Holonyms: maniple, cohort, legion

'tis the subject of whole books: I might cite a century of authors pro and con.

In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery.

Holonyms: kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

Word Forms

• centuries

Synonyms for century

Depending on context, synonyms include age, centennium, yearhundred, centenary, hundred, centred.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include centred, hundred, c, centennial, decade, centenary.

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