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Definition of Century

Century A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers. One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion. Related Definitions: According, Aggregate, Ago, An, Army, As, By, Centuries, Centurion, Century, Civil, Commanded, Companies, Divided, Division, Event, For, Formed, Hundred, Into, It, Legion, Of, One, Over, People, Period, Place, Property, Purpose, Roman, Sixty, The, Their, This, To, Took, Two, Voting, Was, Which

Century Quotations All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. Gore Vidal Genius always finds itself a century too early. Ralph Waldo Emerson Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Henry David Thoreau This young century will be liberty's century. George W. Bush We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics. Polykarp Kusch

Century Translations century in Afrikaans is eeu century in Dutch is eeuw century in German is Jahrhundert century in Italian is secolo century in Spanish is siglo, centuria

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