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CENTURY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CENTURY?

Need another word that means the same as “century”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “century” in this overview.

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Century as a Noun
Definitions of "Century" as a noun
Synonyms of "Century" as a noun (12 Words)
Usage Examples of "Century" as a noun
Associations of "Century" (30 Words)

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.