century

Definitions


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




definition by Oxford Dictionaries