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century
/ˈsɛn.(t)ʃ(ə.)ɹi/
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What does century mean?
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 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.
More meanings (6)
noun
- A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
- A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
- A score of one hundred points.
- A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
- (informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
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When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie.
A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance.
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She was a poet herself who had lost her way and come into our century of prose, and she continued her singing.
These are the three "economic superpowers" which are presumably destined to compete for mastery in international markets on into the 21st century.
This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it.