century

1. 1.

   a period of 100 years

   Broadertime period

   Narrowerquattrocentotwentieth century

   Part ofmillennium

   Partsdecadehalf-centuryquarter-century
2. 2.

   ten 10s

   Synonymshundred100Cone C

   Broaderlarge integer

Other forms of century

plural

centuries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about century

What does century mean?

century means "a period of 100 years". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in century?

century has 3 syllables: cen-tu-ry. The stress falls on "cen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛntʃɚi/.

What is another word for century?

Close synonyms include hundred, 100, C, one C. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is century a common word?

century is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.