Century

Meaning of Century

noun
  1. a period of one hundred years.
    a century ago most people walked to work
  2. a score of a hundred in a sporting event, especially a batsman's score of a hundred runs in cricket.
    he scored the only century of the tour
  3. a company in the ancient Roman army, originally of a hundred men.

late Middle English (in century (sense 3)): from Latin centuria, from centum ‘hundred’. century (sense 1) dates from the early 17th century.

Information about Century

  • It is a name.
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Hyphenation of Century

Cen-tury

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • Century is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Century synonyms

Meaning hundred:

hundred, C

Words that rhyme with Century

cunctatury, satury, pictury, century, semicentury, uncentury, raptury, impostury

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