century
IPA: sˈɛntʃɝi
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 unit in ancient Roman army, 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.
- A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
- A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
- (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
- (snooker) A score of one hundred points.
- (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
- (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
- A surname.
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Examples of "century" in Sentences
- The latter half of the last century was less eventful.
- He was born in the second half of the twentieth century.
- By the first half of the 18th century the concept of the.
- In the first half of the 19th century the population doubled.
- In the first half of the 20th century the pace of building slowed.
- Bifocal lenses advanced little in the first half of the 19th century.
- But in the second half of the 19th century the settlement was deserted.
- The Absolution became common in the second half of the eleventh century.
- Industrialization came to Denmark in the second half of the 19th century.
- In the second half of the 14th century the church was radically reconstructed.