century
A period of one hundred 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.
Noun 4 meanings
A period of one hundred 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 one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
“Holonyms: maniple, cohort, legion”
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
Etymology
From Middle English centurie (“a count of one hundred (of anything); a division of the Roman army; century; a division of land”), from Old French centurie, from Latin centuria, from centum (“one hundred”). The most common modern use is an ellipsis of century of years.
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CENTURY at a glance
CENTURY has 7 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (C 3 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1 + U 1 + R 1 + Y 4) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #972 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with century
All rhymes- INJURY16
- JURY14
- LUXURY16
- TREASURY11
- MERCURY14
- FURY10
- BURY9
- CANTERBURY17
- PERJURY19
- FLEURY12
- SAVOURY13
- ARMOURY12
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