Century
Meaning of Century
noun
- a period of one hundred years.
a century ago most people walked to work
- 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
- 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:
Words that rhyme with Century
cunctatury, satury, pictury, century, semicentury, uncentury, raptury, impostury
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