Definition of century Century
/sɛˈnʧɚi/ - [sencheree] - cen•tu•ry
We found 18 definitions of century from 7 different sources.
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What does century mean?
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- 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; a yearhundred. - 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. - century (Noun)
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly. - century (Noun)
A hundred things; a hundred. - century (Noun)
A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership. - century (Noun)
A ride 100 miles in length. - century (Noun)
A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- century (n.)
A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. - century (n.)
A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. - century (n.)
A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers. - century (n.)
One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
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century
A period of 100 years. -
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A hundred runs scored in cricket either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership. -
century
A unit of the ancient Roman army, originally of 100 soldiers, later reduced to 80.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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 DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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century
In an ancient military sense, meant a hundred soldiers, who were employed in working the battering-ram.
Wikipedia 
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A century is a way to describe a length of time. One century is one hundred years. The ancient Romans used the word century to describe a group of about one hundred soldiers, organized into a single unit.
The Roman numeral for 100 is "C". The word for 100 in Latin is "centum".
Centuries in the Gregorian Calendar (the most-commonly used calendar with 365 days) begin at one instead of zero. That means that in the year 2004, we were in the 21st century, rather than 20th century.
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🔤- century, noun, singular of centuries.
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