| century | |
| 1. n. A period of 100 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 (infor | |
| 2. n. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen) | |
| 3. n. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly. | |
| 4. n. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred. | |
| 5. n. (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership. | |
| 6. n. (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length. | |
| 7. n. (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars. | |
