Definitions for Century
ˈsɛn tʃə ricen·tu·ry

Princeton's WordNet(2.80 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. centurynoun

   a period of 100 years

2. hundred, 100, C, century, one Cnoun

   ten 10s

Wiktionary(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. centurynoun

   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. centurynoun

   A unit in ancient Roman, 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. centurynoun

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

4. centurynoun

   A hundred things; a hundred.

5. centurynoun

   A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.

6. centurynoun

   A ride 100 miles in length.

7. centurynoun

   A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

8. Etymology: From centuria.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. CENTURYnoun

   Etymology: centuria, Lat.

   1. A hundred; usually employed to specify time; as, the second century.

   The nature of eternity is such, that, though our joys, after some centuries of years, may seem to have grown older, by having been enjoyed so many ages, yet will they really still continue new. Boyle.

   And now time’s whiter series is begun,
   Which in soft centuries shall smoothly run. Dryden.

   The lists of bishops are filled with greater numbers than one would expect; but the succession was quick in the three first centuries, because the bishop very often ended in the martyr. Joseph Addison, on the Christian Religion.

   2. It is sometimes used simply for a hundred.

   Romulus, as you may read, did divide the Romans into tribes, and the tribes into centuries or hundreds. Edmund Spenser.

   When
   With wild woodleaves and weeds I have strew’d his grave,
   And on it said a century of pray’rs,
   Such as I can, twice o’er, I’ll weep and sigh. William Shakespeare, Cymb.

Wikipedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Century

   A century is a period of 100 years. 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.A centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Centurynoun

   a hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things

2. Centurynoun

   a period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago

3. Centurynoun

   a division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers

4. Centurynoun

   one of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion

5. Etymology: [L. centuria (in senses 1 & 3), fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centurie. See Cent.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Century

   A century is one hundred consecutive years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Century

   sen′tū-ri, n. a hundred, or something consisting of a hundred in number, as sonnets, &c.: a hundred years.—adj. Centū′rial.—ns. Centū′riātor, the centuriators of Magdeburg were a group of Reformed divines who in the 16th century compiled a church history in 13 vols., each volume covering a century; Centū′rion, among the Romans, the commander of a hundred men.—Century plant (see Agave). [L. centuria—centum.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. century

   In an ancient military sense, meant a hundred soldiers, who were employed in working the battering-ram.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Century' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #439

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Century' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1580

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Century' in Nouns Frequency: #136

How to pronounce Century?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Century in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Century in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Century in a Sentence

1. Meredith MacGregor:

   Proxima Centauri's planets are getting hit by something like this not once in a century, but at least once a day if not several times a day.

2. Pope Francis:

   But this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

3. Paul Tillich, From a lecture:

   The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

4. Guenther Heim:

   Originally the Hundstoa (Hundstein) was a holy mountain of the Celts, who immigrated here in the Fifth Century B.C. They brought iron, tools, sheep and cows with them and also the Ranggeln sport.

5. Gavin Schmidt:

   It’s clear that people are taking this more seriously than they were a decade ago, but let’s not sugarcoat how big a challenge this is. It’s not a challenge for a week or a year or a decade. It’s going to be the challenge of the century.

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