Synonyms of the word century


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century

  • n. A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end…
  • n. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied…
  • n. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
  • n. A hundred like things; a hundred.
  • n. (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
  • n. (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
  • n. (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

centred

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of centre.
  • adj. Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of centered.

hundred

  • num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
  • n. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
  • n. (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising…
  • n. (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or…
  • n. (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

period

  • adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
  • adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
  • interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
  • n. A length of time.
  • n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
  • n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
  • n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
  • n. Female menstruation.
  • n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
  • n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
  • n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
  • n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
  • n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
  • n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
  • n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
  • n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
  • n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
  • n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
  • n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
  • n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

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