century

Meaning of century

noun
  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.
    That was his tenth professional century.
  7. A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
  8. A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

Information about century

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of century is: centuries.
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Hyphenation of century

cen-tury

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • century is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

century synonyms

Meaning hundred:

hundred, C

Meaning :

centuria

Translation of century

Words that rhyme with century

cunctatury, satury, pictury, Century, semicentury, uncentury, raptury, impostury

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