Definitions for century
ˈsɛn tʃə ricen·tu·ry

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

1. century(noun)

   a period of 100 years

2. hundred, 100, C, century, one C(noun)

   ten 10s

Wiktionary(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. century(Noun)

   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.

   Etymology: From centuria.

2. century(Noun)

   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.

   Etymology: From centuria.

3. century(Noun)

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

   Etymology: From centuria.

4. century(Noun)

   A hundred things; a hundred.

   Etymology: From centuria.

5. century(Noun)

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

   Etymology: From centuria.

6. century(Noun)

   A ride 100 miles in length.

   Etymology: From centuria.

7. century(Noun)

   A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

   Etymology: From centuria.

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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.

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1. Century(noun)

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

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

2. Century(noun)

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

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

3. Century(noun)

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

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

4. Century(noun)

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

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

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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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1. century

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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

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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. Larry Eichel:

   In the 1970's, this city was right in middle of half a century of population decline, in the last eight years, the city has grown by 72,000 people. That's not as much as other cities, but when you put it in the context of a half century of decline, it's an achievement.

2. Kyna Hamill:

   As I mentioned in my article, the first documented performance of the song is in a blackface minstrel hall in Boston in 1857, the same year it was copyrighted, much research has been done on the problematic history of this nineteenth-century entertainment.

3. Robert Weiss:

   I'm sure in the 16th century, there were people who said, 'I don't know what to say to my ex; could you say it to her for me?' we jump forward to 'Sex and the City,' and we have the Post-It Note breakup.

4. Amos Tai:

   The relationship between plants and insects and other organisms have developed over many years -- thousands to millions of years, but in the recent century, climate change is really wrecking everything and perturbing all of these relationships.

5. Election Day , Trump:

   There's nothing new under the sun, i think many of Election Day , Trump are aware that President Wilson 100 years ago, a little over a 100 years ago, deployed the US Army to the Southwest border. That's over a century ago. The threat then was Pancho Villa's troops, a revolutionary raiding across the border into the United States, New Mexico, in 1916 and there's a more recent history of DoD support on United States : It spans four administrations and both political parties.

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