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Century is an English word with synonyms like period or hundred. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Century meaning

  1. A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
  2. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
  3. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

Synonyms of Century

time period period of time period hundred 100 c one c centred large integer

Using Century

  • The main meaning on this page is: A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100. | A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion. | A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
  • Useful related words include: time period, period of time, period, hundred.
  • In the example corpus, century often appears in combinations such as: th century, century and, st century.

Context around Century

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 33.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
19th 18th 16th 20th 21st twentieth seventh 5th 17th 1st

Corpus analysis for Century

  • In this selection, "century" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 33.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, 19th, 18th, 16th, board, composer and prices stand out and add context to how "century" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include the 20th century, a 19th century composer berlioz, century fox and seventh century. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "century" sits close to words such as october, shows and capital, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with century

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

For example, nineteenth-century and twentieth-century may be written as nineteenth- and twentieth-century. (15 words)

Archaeological evidence suggests that the Divona aqueduct operated between the beginning of the 1st century AD until the 4th or the early 5th century AD. (25 words)

Quite the mouthful, admittedly, but workable if you think of it as a 21st-century take on an 18th-century composer (Gluck) via a 19th-century composer (Berlioz). (28 words)

The temple, which can be dated to the 2nd century BC, rests on the foundation of an older temple of the 6th century, and close beside it were found the remains of a yet earlier temple, dating from the 9th or even the 10th century. (45 words)

Cooper and Howe have a lot of ground to cover here, as they’ve set for themselves the task of writing an accessible, well-researched book that documents the lives of several members of one family from the 18th century through the 21st century. (44 words)

The "Spanish style" of the late 16th century began the move back to synchronicity among upper-class Europeans, and after a struggle in the mid-17th century, French styles decisively took over leadership, a process completed in the 18th century. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

Century Villages at Cabrillo, photo from left: Century Board of Directors Vice Chair R. Steven Lewis, Century Board of Directors Member Louise Oliver, and Century Senior Vice President of Housing Brian D’Andrea.

But it's also interesting that late 24th-century and early 25th-century set series like Star Trek: Lower Decks don't use transwarp beaming, much less Star Trek: Discovery's 32nd century.

Quite the mouthful, admittedly, but workable if you think of it as a 21st-century take on an 18th-century composer (Gluck) via a 19th-century composer (Berlioz).

Despite its enduring reputation as a place of torture and death, popularised by 16th-century religious propagandists and 19th-century writers, only seven people were executed within the Tower before the World Wars of the 20th century.

During the 16th century prices increased consistently throughout Western Europe, and by the end of the century prices reached levels three to four times higher than at the beginning of the century.

For example, nineteenth-century and twentieth-century may be written as nineteenth- and twentieth-century.

He became the father of Russian literature in the 19th century, marking the highest achievements of 18th century and the beginning of literary process of the 19th century.

History of Humanity: From the seventh century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. by Sigfried J. de Laet p.395 and by the 5th century, stone inscriptions written in Pallava scripts were found in Java and Borneo.

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Kharoṣṭī was used in the northwestern regions of India from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century of the Christian Era, and it was used in Central Asia until the 8th century.

The adjective feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun feudalism, often used in a political and propaganda context, was not coined until the 19th century, from the French féodalité (feudality), itself an 18th-century creation.

The century that each centurion commanded was a direct reflection of his rank: command of the 1st century of the first cohort was the highest, and the 6th century of the 10th cohort was the lowest.

The Ghibelline Visconti family was to retain power in Milan for a century and a half from the early 14th century until the middle of the 15th century.

The "Spanish style" of the late 16th century began the move back to synchronicity among upper-class Europeans, and after a struggle in the mid-17th century, French styles decisively took over leadership, a process completed in the 18th century.

The temple, which can be dated to the 2nd century BC, rests on the foundation of an older temple of the 6th century, and close beside it were found the remains of a yet earlier temple, dating from the 9th or even the 10th century.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the Divona aqueduct operated between the beginning of the 1st century AD until the 4th or the early 5th century AD.

But the practice of keeping woolly dogs and weaving textiles made from woolly dog yarn declined throughout the 19th century, and the dogs were considered extinct by the beginning of the 20th century.

But they also have a long military history that extends back to the Napoleonic era in Europe during the late 18th century and early 19th century when they were used for surveillance and bombing missions.

But this is also an alternate universe where eighteenth-century musicians play twenty-first-century pop hits and the reigning English monarch is toe-curlingly handsome, so let us feel free to exercise some suspension of disbelief.

Catesby's ten-bed manor is believed to date from the mid-16th century and was later enlarged by famed architect Sir Edward Lutyens in the early part of the 20th century.

Cooper and Howe have a lot of ground to cover here, as they’ve set for themselves the task of writing an accessible, well-researched book that documents the lives of several members of one family from the 18th century through the 21st century.

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Common combinations with century

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "century" in a sentence?
An example: "Century Villages at Cabrillo, photo from left: Century Board of Directors Vice Chair R. Steven Lewis, Century Board of Directors Member Louise Oliver, and Century Senior Vice President of Housing Brian D’Andrea." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "century" from authentic English texts.
What does "century" mean?
Century means: A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
What are synonyms of "century"?
Common synonyms of "century" include: time period, period of time, period, hundred, 100, c, one c, centred. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "century" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "century", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.