century

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centuries

1.
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.
Holonyms: kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < microcentury (humorous) < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond
Đồng nghĩa: age, centennium, yearhundred, centenary
2.
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
Đồng nghĩa: centuria
3.
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
4.
A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
5.
(cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
He has scored 44 limited-overs centuries.
They put on a century stand to help their team recover from 57–4 to 198–4.
6.
(snooker) A score of one hundred points.
That was his tenth professional century.
7.
(sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
8.
(US, informal)A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

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From Middle English centurie, from Old French centurie, from Latin centuria, from centum (one hundred). The most common modern use is an ellipsis of century of years.