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   century

   /ˈsɛntʃ(ʊ)ri/

   noun

   • 1. a period of one hundred years: "a century ago most people walked to work"
   • ▪ a period of a hundred years reckoned from the traditional date of the birth of Christ: "the fifteenth century"
   • 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.
   • ▪ an ancient Roman political division for voting.

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

   Derivatives

   • 1. centurial adjective

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