/ˈsen.tʃər.i/
Translation
A period of one hundred years.
Word origin
From Latin centuria, a group of a hundred, from centum meaning hundred.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- centuria
Grammar
Examples
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"Century" is a period of one hundred years.
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Here "century" means one hundred years.
These .
"Centuries" is the plural, meaning more than one century.
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