 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
century
noun
1: 100 years
2: ten 10s [syn: {hundred}, {100}, {C}, {one C}, {centred}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Century \Cen"tu*ry\, noun; pl. {Centuries}. [L. centuria (in
senses 1 & 3), fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centurie. See
{Cent}.]
1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a
hundred things. [Archaic.]
And on it said a century of prayers. --Shak.
2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place
over two centuries ago.
Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although often used
in a general way of any series of hundred consecutive
years (as, a century of temperance work), usually
signifies a division of the Christian era, consisting
of a period of one hundred years ending with the
hundredth year from which it is named; as, the first
century ({a}. {d}. 1-100 inclusive); the seventh
century ({a}.{d}. 601-700); the eighteenth century
({a}.{d}. 1701-1800). With words or phrases connecting
it with some other system of chronology it is used of
similar division of those eras; as, the first century
of Rome (A.U.C. 1-100).
3. (Rom. Antiq.)
(a) A division of the Roman people formed according to
their property, for the purpose of voting for civil
officers.
(b) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army
was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
{Century plant} (Bot.), the {Agave Americana}, formerly
supposed to flower but once in a century; -- hence the
name. See {Agave}.
{The Magdeburg Centuries}, an ecclesiastical history of the
first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes,
compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at
Magdeburg.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "century":
C, C-note, G, G-note, abundant year, academic year, aeon, age,
ages, annum, bicentenary, bicentennial, bissextile year, buck,
calendar month, calendar year, cartwheel, cent, cental, centare,
centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram,
centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev,
centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, common year, copper, cwt, day,
decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dime, dollar,
dollar bill, eternity, fifty cents, fin, fiscal year, fish,
five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill,
five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, fortnight, four bits,
frogskin, grand, gross, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand,
hecatomb, hour, hundred, hundred-dollar bill, hundredweight,
iron man, leap year, long, long hundred, long time, long while,
lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour,
microsecond, mill, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month,
month of Sundays, moon, nickel, one C, penny, quarter,
quinquennium, red cent, regular year, right smart spell, sawbuck,
second, semester, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, session,
sidereal year, silver dollar, skin, smacker, solar year, sun,
ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, tercentenary, tercentennial, term,
thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, trimester, twelvemonth,
twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill,
two-spot, week, weekday, yard, year, years, years on end
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Century, FL (town, FIPS 11375)
Location: 30.97747 N, 87.26153 W
Population (1990): 1989 (872 housing units)
Area: 8.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 32535
Century, WV
Zip code(s): 26214
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Century, FL -- U.S. town in Florida
Population (2000): 1714
Housing Units (2000): 800
Land area (2000): 3.280645 sq. miles (8.496830 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.060760 sq. miles (0.157367 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.341405 sq. miles (8.654197 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11362
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 30.977648 N, 87.261500 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 32535
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Century, FL
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