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Definition of Century
1. Noun. A period of 100 years.
Group relationships: Millenary, Millennium
Terms within: Decade, Decennary, Decennium, Half-century, Quarter-century
Specialized synonyms: Quattrocento, Twentieth Century
2. Noun. Ten 10s.
Definition of Century
1. n. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
Definition of Century
1. 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. ¹
2. 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. ¹
3. Noun. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly. ¹
4. Noun. (archaic) A hundred things; a hundred. ¹
5. Noun. (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership. ¹
6. Noun. (US cycling) A ride 100 miles in length. ¹
7. Noun. (US informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Century
1. a period of 100 years [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Century
Literary usage of Century
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"HEROINES OF FICTION SOME NINETEENTH-century HEROINES IN THE EIGHTEENTH century
IN proposing to confine these studies to the nineteenth-century heroines of ..."
2. Europe 1598-1715 by Henry Offley Wakeman (1904)
"CHAPTER I EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH century Importance of the
... THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its ..."
3. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"Towards the middle of that century, to be sure, Milton and Spenser are known to
... 1 Peace of the Augustans, a Survey of Eighteenth-century Literature as a ..."
4. Bering's Voyages: An Account of the Efforts of the Russians to Determine the by Frank Alfred Golder, Leonhard Stejneger (1922)
"From the early years of the seventeenth century onward more or less reliable ...
When the Jesuits came to Japan in the middle of the sixteenth century they ..."
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