century in English

noun
1
a period of one hundred years.
a century ago most people walked to work
2
a company in the ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred men.
Centurions took their title from the fact that they commanded a century .
3
a bicycle race of one hundred miles.
the nation's largest single-day century ride
noun

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1. Century synonyms, Century pronunciation, Century translation, English dictionary definition of Century

2. Ladies and gentlemen, the 20th century was a century of capital accumulation; the 21st Century will be the Century of innovation.

3. 0–9 15th-century Antiquarians‎ (2 P) 16th-century Antiquarians‎ (34 P) 17th-century Antiquarians‎ (63 P) 18th-century Antiquarians‎ (79 P)

4. Europe, century by century, was growing milder and damper.

5. Twentieth-century video art is rooted in 19th-century science.

6. Crouched in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

7. The 20th century, especially, has not been a century of peace.

8. Bantery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

9. Affatuate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

10. Coriaceous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

11. Bantery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

12. Affeeble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

13. 11 The twentieth century was called the century of the common man .

14. Restoring 19th century Brownstones in 21st century NYC is expensive and takes time

15. Utopian socialism arose in Europe in the sixteenth century, peaked in nineteenth century.

16. Looking back to the seventeenth century, or forward to the late twentieth century.

17. They ruled the Aztec Empire from the 14th century to the 16th century

18. 19th Century Authoresses on …

19. Famous 20th Century Anthropologists

20. It is a group of three 15th-century mausoleums, restored in the 19th century.

21. Bastions were dominant for 300 years (from the mid-sixteenth century to mid-nineteenth century).

22. The nineteenth century was Cocksure of so many things about which the twentieth century doubts

23. CENTURY 21 Commercial®, the CENTURY 21 Commercial Logo, C21 Commercial® and C21® are registered service marks owned by Century 21 Real Estate LLC

24. It's Goddamn twentieth century affectations.

25. Bloodguilt in the 20th Century

26. 19th Century Barque stock illustrations

27. Archimandrite's crozier, Armenia, 19th century

28. Welcome to the 21st century

29. Contredanse, 17th century french dance

30. [Mid 18th century.] Abdominal muscles

31. OJ: Trial of the Century.

32. Atakebune, 16th century coastal battleships.

33. Antilles ES 21st Century Facility

34. Leather Brigandines first surfaced in the 14th Century and became very popular in the 15th Century

35. No wonder! Anuradhapura was the capital Sri Lanka, from 4th century BC till 11th century AD

36. We cannot march through the twenty first century with the administrative systems of the nineteenth century.

37. This chapel dates from the end of the 11th century with a 19th-century side chapel.

38. Backworth was a centre of coal mining through the 19th Century and much of the 20th Century

39. The Bulwarked border fortifications were planned and built between the end of the 16th century or start of the 17th century and the end of the 18th century

40. It was used by ranchers, fishermen, and smugglers during the 19th century and into the 20th century.

41. So Mexico had a monopoly on the vanilla trade from the 16th century until the 19th century.

42. Bobolinks expanded their range into Ohio during the nineteenth-century and were well established by mid-century

43. The Nabateans prospered in north-west Arabia between the 1st century B.C. and the 1st century A.C.

44. The islands became more self-consciously Greek as the 19th century, the century of romantic nationalism, neared.

45. 19 This latter has increased throughout the twentieth century; it is not an end-of-century phenomenon.

46. In the 19th century and early 20th century, unwanted gas was usually burned off at oil fields.

47. Our furnishings are Circa 20th century from Mid Century Modern to Hollywood Regency meets vintage Palm Beach.

48. In the 18th century, Castrati were …

49. Archlute by Matteo Sellas, 17th Century

50. Anglesey, 5th century Penmon Priory Church