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The synonyms of “Century” are: 100, c, hundred, one c, age, time, period, era, epoch, decade, year, stage
Century as a Noun
Definitions of "Century" as a noun
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “century” as a noun can have the following definitions:
- A company in the ancient Roman army, originally of a hundred men.
- A period of 100 years.
- A period of one hundred years.
- A period of a hundred years reckoned from the traditional date of the birth of Christ.
- Ten 10s.
- An ancient Roman political division for voting.
- A score of a hundred in a sporting event, especially a batsman's score of a hundred runs in cricket.
Synonyms of "Century" as a noun (12 Words)
100 | Ten 10s. |
age | A particular stage in someone s life. We live in a litigious age. |
c | Music the keynote of the scale of C major. |
decade | Each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary. The fourth decade of the nineteenth century. |
epoch | A particular period of time in history or a person’s life. The Victorian epoch. |
era | A measure of a pitcher s effectiveness calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched. His death marked the end of an era. |
hundred | Ten 10s. Wantage Hundred. |
one c | The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number. |
period | A set of elements occupying a horizontal row in the periodic table. The training period is between 16 and 18 months. |
stage | The theater as a profession usually the stage. It set the stage for peaceful negotiations. |
time | Time or an amount of time as reckoned by a conventional standard. I didn t have time to finish. |
year | A period similar to a year used for reckoning time according to other calendars. She is 4 years old. |
Usage Examples of "Century" as a noun
- A twentieth-century lifestyle.
- He scored the only century of the tour.
- The fifteenth century.
- A century ago most people walked to work.
Associations of "Century" (30 Words)
annual | An annual plant. The sponsored walk became an annual event. |
antediluvian | Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood. Gigantic bones of antediluvian animals. |
antiquary | An expert or collector of antiquities. |
antiquated | Old-fashioned or outdated. This antiquated central heating system. |
archaic | (of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavour. Prisons are run on archaic methods. |
billion | Denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain. |
decade | A range of electrical resistances, frequencies, or other quantities spanning from one to ten times a base value. The fourth decade of the nineteenth century. |
eighty | The cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight. |
eleven | Being one more than ten. |
fifty | A United States bill worth 50 dollars. |
five | A playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips. |
fourth | In the fourth place. Fourthly you must pay the rent on the first of the month. |
half | A half price fare or ticket especially for a child. Half an hour. |
hundred | A subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court. Wantage Hundred. |
manor | (in North America) an estate or district leased to tenants, especially one granted by royal charter in a British colony or by the Dutch governors of what is now New York State. A Tudor manor house in the English countryside. |
millennium | (New Testament) in Revelations it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah’s Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness. The millennium of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
million | A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole. There were millions of flies. |
nineteen | The cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one. |
ninety | Being ten more than eighty. |
percent | A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred. |
quarter | Cut a log into quarters and these into planks so as to show the grain well. She cut each apple into quarters. |
seventy | The cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven. |
sixty | Being ten more than fifty. |
span | The wingspan of an aircraft or a bird. A major setback was the collapse of one span of a flyover. |
ten | One of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face. |
thirteen | Being one more than twelve. |
thirty | Being ten more than twenty. |
thousand | Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units. |
twelve | The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one. |
twenty | A United States bill worth 20 dollars. |