centuries

Noun

century (plural 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

   Synonyms:

   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

   Synonyms:

   centuria

3. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
4. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
   • 'tis the subject of whole books: I might cite a century of authors pro and con.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
5. 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.
6. A score of one hundred points.
   • That was his tenth professional century.

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