century
Plural: centuries
Noun
- A period of one hundred years.
- a period of 100 years
- ten 10s
- 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.
- 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.
- A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
- A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
- A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
- A score of one hundred points.
- A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
- A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
Examples
- He has scored 44 limited-overs centuries.
- It felt like a CENTURY had passed waiting for his opponent to make a move.
- That was his tenth professional century.
- They put on a century stand to help their team recover from 57-4 to 198-4.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
100, C, hundred, one C, age, centenary, centennium, centuria, yearhundred
Scrabble Score: 12
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