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.

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

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.]

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

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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. Myriah Williams and Paul Russell:

   The 'Black Book' was particularly heavily annotated before the end of the 16th century.

2. Thomas Carlyle:

   Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

3. Patricia Arquette:

   I can't tell you what this means to me, i'm a fourth-generation actor. My family has been committed to acting for over a century, through feast or famine.

4. Ayman Odeh:

   There is someone who set this plan: Benjamin Netanyahu, we need to overthrow him, our biggest agitator, the person behind the Deal of the Century.

5. Peter Sokolowski:

   It was a very new word at that time, his definition is not the definition that you and I would understand today. His definition was, ‘The qualities of females,’ so basically feminism to Noah Webster meant femaleness. We do see evidence that the word was used in the 19th century in a medical sense, for the physical characteristics of a developing teenager, before it was used as a political term, if you will.

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