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Synonyms for century
ˈsɛn tʃə ricen·tu·ry

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Wiktionary4.5 / 2 votes

  1. centurynoun

    Synonyms:
    centuria

  2. centurynoun

    A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

    Synonyms:
    centuria

  3. centurynoun

    A unit in ancient Roman, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

    Synonyms:
    centuria

  4. centurynoun

    A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

    Synonyms:
    centuria

  5. centurynoun

    A hundred things; a hundred.

    Synonyms:
    centuria

  6. centurynoun

    A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.

    Synonyms:
    centuria

  7. centurynoun

    A ride 100 miles in length.

    Synonyms:
    centuria

  8. centurynoun

    A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

    Synonyms:
    centuria

Princeton's WordNet4.3 / 13 votes

  1. centurynoun

    a period of 100 years

    Synonyms:
    hundred, one C

  2. hundred, 100, C, century, one Cnoun

    ten 10s

    Synonyms:
    hundred, light speed, degree Celsius, nose candy, snow, coke, vitamin C, ascorbic acid, deoxycytidine monophosphate, one C, degree centigrade, ampere-second, coulomb, speed of light, atomic number 6, blow, carbon, cytosine

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Editors Contribution3.3 / 3 votes

  1. 100-year

    it stands for 100 years

    it's been a century since it last happened

    Submitted by acronimous on June 12, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. centurynoun

    Synonyms:
    hundred

  2. centurynoun

    Synonyms:
    centenary, a hundred years

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.5 / 2 votes

  1. centurynoun

    Synonyms:
    centenary

    Associated words:
    centennial, secular

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "century":

    xxi, twenty-first, siècle, siglo, half-century, age, millennium

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How to use century in a sentence?

  1. Emily Tuttle:

    I think that that's what sexual assault also looks like in the 21st century, with phones, like, no, physically, someone's not touching you and doing something, but they're taking your physical body and doing whatever they want to it, or with it.

  2. Laura Meller:

    We have half a decade left, and we can’t be complacent, if we want the high seas to be healthy for the next century we have to modernize this system – now. And this is our one, and potentially only, chance to do that. And time is urgent. Climate change is about to rain down hellfire on our ocean.

  3. Brad Smith:

    My sense is that they are focused on a full range of infrastructure needs, including 21st century infrastructure like broadband, we welcome the dialogue.

  4. White House:

    Judge Howell's decision today confirms what the Department of Justice and scholars throughout the country have been saying all along: the president's executive actions on immigration are lawful, the Supreme Court and Congress have made clear that federal officials can set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws, and the actions announced by the president are consistent with those taken by administrations of both parties for the last half century.

  5. President Obama:

    We are in absolute agreement that in the 21st century, we cannot stand idle..and simply allow the borders of Europe to be redrawn at the barrel of the gun.


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