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How to pronounce “century”
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Pronunciation guide for century
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- Practice the English pronunciation of century with real speech in context.
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- Steven Pinker
short. A century later, Jean-Jacques Rousseau countered that "nothing can be more gentle
- Definition summary
- A period of one hundred 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.
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How to pronounce century
Steven Pinker
short. A century later, Jean-Jacques Rousseau countered that "nothing can be more gentle
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- A period of one hundred 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.
- A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
- A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
- A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
- (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
- (snooker) A score of one hundred points.
- (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
- (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
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