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century
noun · Say it: SEN-chuh-ree
What it means
Foundationa period of one hundred years
Our school was built over a century ago, in Victorian times.
Similar and opposite words
Synonyms (similar meaning)
- hundred years
More examples
- The batsman scored a century, hitting one hundred runs in the cricket match.
Where the word comes from
From the Latin 'centuria', meaning a group of one hundred.
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