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noun
- 1. a period of one hundred years: "a century ago most people walked to work"
- 2. a score of a hundred in a sporting event, especially a batsman's score of a hundred runs in cricket: "he scored the only century of the tour"
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a period of 100 years: Her medical career spanned half a century. A century is also a particular period of 100 years: the fourth century B.C. His music was influential in the 19th and 20th centuries.
1. : a period of 100 years. a company that has been in business for more than a century. specifically : one of the 100-year divisions of the Christian era or of the preceding period of human history. the third century A.D./B.C. the 18th century. 2. : a group, sequence, or series of 100 like things. 3. a. : a subdivision of the Roman legion. b.
noun. 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 100. to score a century in cricket. ( as modifier ) the basketball team passed the century mark in their last game.
A century is a period of 100 years or 10 decades. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred. Century is sometimes abbreviated as c. [1]
Definition of century noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
100 years is called a century. The computer, the television, and video games were all invented in the twentieth century. People are now wondering what the twenty-first century holds for us. The noun century comes from the Latin word centuria, which was a group of 100, particularly a group of 100 Roman soldiers (one of 16 such groups in a Roman ...
1. a. A period of 100 years. b. Each of the successive periods of 100 years before or since the advent of the Christian era. 2. a. A unit of the Roman army originally consisting of 100 men. b. One of the 193 electoral divisions of the Roman people. 3. A group of 100 things.
a period of 100 years, especially used in giving dates: the twentieth century. Fewer examples. It was built in the late nineteenth century. The house is modelled on a 16th century castle. The twentieth century brought about revolutionary changes in our lifestyles. The world has changed fundamentally over the last century.
a period of one hundred years: . Meaning, pronunciation and example sentences, English to English reference content.
