About The Word Century

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Century

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What's The Definition Of Century?
[n] ten 10s
[n] 100 years Synonyms | Synonyms for Century: 100 | C | centred | hundred | one C Related Terms | Find terms related to Century: abundant year | academic year | aeon | age | ages | annum | bicentenary | bicentennial | bissextile year | buck | C | calendar month | calendar year | cartwheel | cent | cental | centare | centenarian | centenary | centennial | centennium | centigram | centimeter | centipede | centistere | centred | centref | centrev | centumvir | centumvirate | centurion | C-note | common year | copper | cwt | day | decade | decennary | decennium | defective year | dime | dollar | dollar bill | eternity | fifty cents | fin | fiscal year | fish | five cents | five hundred dollars | five-dollar bill | five-hundred-dollar bill | fiver | five-spot | fortnight | four bits | frogskin | G | G-note | grand | gross | half a C | half dollar | half G | half grand | hecatomb | hour | hundred | hundred-dollar bill | hundredweight | iron man | leap year | long | long hundred | long time | long while | lunar month | lunar year | lunation | luster | lustrum | man-hour | microsecond | mill | millennium | millisecond | minute | moment | month | month of Sundays | moon | nickel | one C | penny | quarter | quinquennium | red cent | regular year | right smart spell | sawbuck | second | semester | sesquicentenary | sesquicentennial | session | sidereal year | silver dollar | skin | smacker | solar year | sun | ten cents | tenner | ten-spot | tercentenary | tercentennial | term | thousand dollars | thousand-dollar bill | trimester | twelvemonth | twenty-dollar bill | twenty-five cents | two bits | two-dollar bill | two-spot | week | weekday | yard | year | years | years on end See Also | decade | decennary | decennium | half-century | large integer | millennium | period | period of time | quarter-century | quattrocento | time period Century In Webster's Dictionary \Cen"tu*ry\, n.; pl. {Centuries}. [L. centuria (in
senses 1 & 3), fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centurie. See
{Cent}.]
1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a
hundred things. [Archaic.]
And on it said a century of prayers. --Shak.
2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place
over two centuries ago.
Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although often used
in a general way of any series of hundred consecutive
years (as, a century of temperance work), usually
signifies a division of the Christian era, consisting
of a period of one hundred years ending with the
hundredth year from which it is named; as, the first
century ({a}. {d}. 1-100 inclusive); the seventh
century ({a}.{d}. 601-700); the eighteenth century
({a}.{d}. 1701-1800). With words or phrases connecting
it with some other system of chronology it is used of
similar division of those eras; as, the first century
of Rome (A.U.C. 1-100).
3. (Rom. Antiq.)
(a) A division of the Roman people formed according to
their property, for the purpose of voting for civil
officers.
(b) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army
was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
{Century plant} (Bot.), the {Agave Americana}, formerly
supposed to flower but once in a century; -- hence the
name. See {Agave}.
{The Magdeburg Centuries}, an ecclesiastical history of the
first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes,
compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at
Magdeburg.
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