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- [sen-chuh-ree]
- /ˈsɛn tʃə ri/
- /ˈsentʃəri/
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- [sen-chuh-ree]
- /ˈsɛn tʃə ri/
Definitions of century word
- countable noun century A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900. 3
- countable noun century A century is any period of a hundred years. 3
- countable noun century In cricket, a century is a score of one hundred runs or more by one batsman. 3
- noun century a period of 100 years 3
- noun century one of the successive periods of 100 years dated before or after an epoch or event, esp the birth of Christ 3
- noun century a score or grouping of 100 3
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Origin of century
First appearance:
before 1525 One of the 28% oldest English words
1525-35; < Latin centuria unit made up of 100 parts, especially company of soldiers, equivalent to cent(um) 100 + -uria, perhaps extracted from decuria decury
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Parts of speech for Century
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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century popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
century usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for century
adj century
- centenary — The centenary of an event such as someone's birth is the 100th anniversary of that event.
- centennial — A centennial is the same as a centenary.
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
noun century
- period — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
- time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- span — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
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