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century
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[ˈsɛntʃ(ʊ)ri], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a period of one hundred years
(e.g: the company has been on its present site for over a century)
- a score of a hundred in a sporting event, especially a batter's score of a hundred runs in a cricket match
(e.g: he scored the only century of the tour)
- a company in the ancient Roman army, originally of a hundred men
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Origin
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late Middle English (in century): from Latin centuria, from centum ‘hundred’. century dates from the early 17th century
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