What does century mean?

Definitions for century
ˈsɛn tʃə ricen·tu·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. centurynoun

    a period of 100 years

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

    ten 10s

Wiktionary

  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

  1. CENTURYnoun

    Etymology: centuria, Lat.

    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.

    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

  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.

ChatGPT

  1. century

    A century is a period of 100 years that is widely used as a unit of time measurement in various contexts such as history, calendars, and human lifespan.

Webster Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  1. Century

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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  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. centuriacentum.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. century

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

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CENTURY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Century is ranked #153769 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Century surname appeared 106 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Century.

    59.4% or 63 total occurrences were Black.
    33% or 35 total occurrences were White.

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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. Arrivo CEO Brogan Bambrogan:

    Arrivo CEO Brogan Bambrogan is developing 21st century technology that’s going to let you do more with what you have.

  2. Isaac Asimov:

    Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  3. Tim Gore:

    Climate change and economic inequality are inextricably linked and together pose one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, paris must be the start of building a more human economy for all – not just for the 'haves', the richest and highest emitters, but also the 'have-nots', the poorest people who are the least responsible for and most vulnerable to climate change.

  4. Rebecca Mikula-Wright:

    ?Japan's approach to reducing emissions is being watched closely throughout Asia, if investors see strong and positive policy signals that encourage deeper emissions reductions by 2030, and a clear path to net-zero emissions by mid-century, they will respond with greater investment in clean technology and climate-resilient infrastructure.

  5. Vladyslav Heraskevych:

    In Ukraine, it's really nervous now, a lot of news about guns, about weapons, what's to come in Ukraine, about some armies around Ukraine. It's not OK. Not in the 21st century. So I decided, before the Olympics, that I would show my position to the world.

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