century

Speech parts

1. century - Noun

2. Century - Proper noun

Meaning

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.

A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

one hundred years hundred years period age epoch era hundred centenary c one C hundred-year period centennial aeon millennium bicentennial
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Antonyms

jiffy day second wink moment minute
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Hypernyms

period period of time time period large integer

Hyponyms

quattrocento twentieth century

Related terms

centurion

Phrases with the word

half a century at the turn of the century the better part of a century a quarter of a century the century mark hit the century mark

Derivatives

centuries

Anagrams

cuntery curteyn

Examples

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Marshall McLuhan

Live for a century ? learn for a century. Russian Proverb

Aesop, "The Swallow and the Other Birds" (c. 6th century BC) Chinese Proverb

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. - English, 17th century. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

centurion's staff centurist centurium century and a half century and a quarter century boundary