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century
English
Etymology
From Middle English centurie (“a count of one hundred (of anything); a division of the Roman army; century; a division of land”), from Old French centurie, from Latin centuria, from centum (“one hundred”). The most common modern use is a shortening of century of years.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?n.t???.?i?/, /?s?n.t???i?/, /?s?n.t????i?/
- Hyphenation: cen?tu?ry, cent?ury
- Homophone: sentry (for some speakers)
Noun
century (plural centuries)
- A period of 100 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 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
- A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
- 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.
- (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
- (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
Synonyms
- (period of 100 consecutive years): yearhundred (very rare)
- (Roman army unit): centuria
Meronyms
- (major unit of the Roman army): cohort, maniple, legion
Derived terms
Related terms
- centurion
Translations
See also
- centennial, semicentennial, multicentennial, bicentennial, sesquicentennial, tricentennial, quadricentennial, quincentennial, sexcentennial, septicentennial, octocentennial, novocentennial
- secular, plurisecular, multisecular
- centenary, bicentenary, tricentenary, quadricentenary, quincentenary, sexcentenary, septicentenary, octocentenary, novocentenary
- centenarian, multicentenarian
Anagrams
- cuntery, curteyn
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oughties
English
Etymology
Perhaps from nought and eighties.
Noun
oughties pl (plural only)
- (rare, humorous) A decade running from the first year of a century to the tenth.
Synonyms
- 2000s (21st century)
- noughties
Anagrams
- toughies
oughties From the web:
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- what is noughties decade
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