Synonyms for century
ˈsɛn tʃə ricen·tu·ry

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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 WordNetRate these synonyms:4.3 / 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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1. • Large Integer
   • Time Period

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:3.3 / 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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. centurynoun

   Synonyms:
   hundred

2. centurynoun

   Synonyms:
   centenary, a hundred years

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. centurynoun

   Synonyms:
   centenary

   Associated words:
   centennial, secular

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "century":

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

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1. Robert Weiss:

   I'm sure in the 16th century, there were people who said, 'I don't know what to say to my ex; could you say it to her for me?' we jump forward to 'Sex and the City,' and we have the Post-It Note breakup.

2. Matthew England:

   The projections we have make it look like the Antarctic overturning would collapse this century.

3. Jay Carver:

   The particular question is, what was responsible? Actually what pathogen, what bacteria formed the Great Plague outbreak in the 17th century? it doesn't seem to come back, so something changed in the way people were living. People say the Great Fire of London in 1666 had something to do with the ending of Great Plague events, but through the scientific studies we can do these days on DNA from samples of these skeletons, we might be able to tell what pathogen is responsible for that outbreak and perhaps why it stopped.

4. Gavin Schmidt:

   The last seven years have all been more than 1-degree Celsius above the 19th century -- and that's large enough on a planetary scale to start showing up much, much more clearly in local and regional and extreme events, the global warming is now large enough that it's an indicator of all those other things that we're already seeing. So, we're now seeing global warming quite locally in ways that, a decade ago or maybe 20 years ago, was still unclear.

5. Patricia Arquette:

   I can't tell you what this means to me, i'm a fourth-generation actor. My family has been committed to acting for over a century, through feast or famine.