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      century
      noun
      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 hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
      (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
      (snooker) A score of one hundred points.
      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.
      A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
      (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
      (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
      A surname.
      Roots
      centumcent- · Latin · hundred
      Synonyms for century
      decadenhundredndecenniumnyearsndecennaryntwelvemonthncentennialadjquinquenniumncentenaryadjquartern
      Words related to century
      centurialtwentiethadjnineteenthadjquattrocentonmillenniumsnmillennianeighteenthadjseventeenthadjsixteenthadjfifteenthadjdecenniallyadvninetiesnfiftiesnvicennialadjthirtiesnfourteenthadjafteryearsthirteenthadjtwelfthadjsexcentenaryadjthirtiethadjeranseventiesnmillenarynninetiethadjsixtiesneightiesnepochndozenthdecennial

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