CENTURY

Pronunciation (US):

• CENTURY (noun)
  The noun CENTURY has 2 senses:

1. a period of 100 years
2. ten 10s

  Familiarity information: CENTURY used as a noun is rare.

• CENTURY (noun)

Meaning:

A period of 100 years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("century" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "century"):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)

half-century (a period of 50 years)

quarter-century (a period of 25 years)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "century"):

quattrocento (the 15th century in Italian art and literature)

Holonyms ("century" is a part of...):

millenary; millennium (a span of 1000 years)

Meaning:

Ten 10s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

100; centred; hundred; one C; century; C

Hypernyms ("century" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)