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ct.

ct. is the abbreviation of century.

ct. is the abbreviation of court.

Meaning of century

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
  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.

See all 9 meanings of century

Meaning of court

Noun

court (plural courts)

  1. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
    • The girls were playing in the court.
    1. (Australia, US) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
    2. (Hong-Kong) A housing estate under the Home Ownership Scheme.
    3. (Hong-Kong) An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
  2. (social) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
    • The noblemen visited the queen in her court.
  3. (social) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
    • Meronym: royal household

See all 27 meanings of court

Noun capitalized: Ct.

Ct. (countable and uncountable, plural Cts.)

  1. Court.
  2. Count.
  3. Contact, a shorthand used by pilots copying IFR clearances.

Forms of ct.

pluralcts.
pluralCts.

Words formed from ct.

Phrases with ct.

Questions about ct.

What does ct. mean?
Ct. means court.
What is ct. the abbreviation of?
Ct. is the abbreviation of century.
What part of speech is ct.?
Ct. is a noun.
What is the plural of ct.?
The plural of ct. is cts..

Words near ct. in the dictionary

  1. csárdás
  2. csárdáses
  3. ct
  4. CT scan
  5. CT scans
  6. ct.
  7. Ct. of App.
  8. CTA
  9. CTAB
  10. CTAL
  11. CTAs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ct. (page history and authors); Ct. (page history and authors); century (page history and authors); court (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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