Definition of century in English:

century

nounPlural centuries ˈsɛntʃʊriˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)ri

1A period of one hundred years.
世纪，百年
a century ago most people walked to work
一个世纪前，绝大多数人步行上班。
Example sentencesExamples
- We have come a long way since 78 rpm records helped usher in the jazz era almost a century ago!
- There are now five living generations in the family, from Mrs Sterling to Honey, whose dates of birth are almost a century apart.
- The house is a condensation of the past, representing how this city has developed from a century ago to the present.
- Making its first appearance a little over a century ago, the lure of the limerick is such that it has grown to become one of the world's most popular verse forms.
- Tall fescue, a vigorous Old World grass introduced to the New more than a century ago, now reigns over much of this region.
- In bright sunshine, thousands of churchgoers from parishes across Manchester and Salford mingled with Bank Holiday crowds to enjoy a tradition dating back two centuries.
- We are just continuing a tradition which dates back several centuries.
- And in the not-too-distant future broadband could have as much effect on the way we live our lives as the introduction of the motor car had a century ago.
- It killed one in seven Americans a little over a century ago, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
- Little more than a village a century ago, Palm Springs is proud of its snoozy, sun-baked reputation.
- Vietnam has a vibrant literary tradition dating back many centuries.
- So people can say what they want but at the end of the day there is still a huge desire for nostalgia and things of the past and reliving how it was in this country a century ago.
- It is a river town in Borneo that is little changed from a century ago when it served as the backdrop for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.
- The Mumbai drainage system was built over a century ago, during the period of British colonial rule.
- In China, feudalism, as a social system, collapsed nearly a century ago when the country became a republic in 1911.
- Rowing has a long tradition at both Oxford and Cambridge, dating back centuries.
- Visitors to the Castle Museum will be able to discover more about the building's grim past centuries ago when it served as a debtors' prison.
- That is why it has these ideas dragged up from last century and from two centuries ago.
- Drawing on Asian traditions that date back centuries, its spa retreats blend romance and serenity with exotic sensuality.
- Sharing a heavy wooden table with other breakfasters, we felt content knowing we would eat noodles just as the villagers here did a century ago.
1. 1.1 A period of a hundred years reckoned from the traditional date of the birth of Christ.
  世纪（以基督传统诞辰为起点的百年）
  the fifteenth century
  15世纪。
  as modifier a twentieth-century lifestyle
  一种20世纪的生活方式。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I conclude that in particular the factors which I have just listed in favour of an 18th century date outweigh those which are against it.
  Archaeologists said the workmen had stumbled upon a Roman cemetery at the edge of a settlement dating from the first century AD.
  The cross bow loops in the south wall are similar to an example in the west wall of Whites Castle and may be dated to the fifteenth century.
  The fate of ancient, unexcavated Mayan settlements dating from the fifth century also hangs in the balance.
  In the fifth century Christianity had conquered Paganism, and Paganism had infected Christianity.
  Nevertheless, the St Francis continued to be considered as a work in the style of Botticelli dating from the last decade of the fifteenth century.
  It consists of thirteen chapters of the Markandeya Purana which probably dates back to the fifth century of the Christian era.
  The gory de-horning of the Maral deer is an annual ritual in this isolated part of Siberia and dates from the 17th century.
  This little house dates from the 15th century and has a traditional chimney.
  From the fifth to the fifteenth centuries the dominant power in the area was the Khmer empire, in which various forms of Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism were popular.
  The earliest scholarly reports of chain letters date to the first decade of the twentieth century and arise periodically.
  Athens reached its zenith during the fifth century B.C., a period known as its Golden Age.
  Most of the present walls date from the fourth, fifth and eleventh centuries and, although broken in places, it is still possible to walk their four-mile length.
  By the middle of the eighteenth century, the traditional system of publication was everywhere in shambles.
  The collection now includes works dating from the 18th century right up to present day.
  Its use as a medium for literary texts, pioneered by the early Christians, dates from the first century ce.
  Bexley dates back to at least the fifth century when it was known as Byxlea, a settlement in a clearing of box trees.
  In the third century before Christ's birth, China is a collection of seven warring states that have yet to unite into one country.
  The two statues are generally believed to date from the fifth century but some believe they may be of later origin.
  The dryness of the region helped explain the fine condition of the textiles, which date from the third century BC.
  Synonyms
  age, time, period, era, epoch, decade, year, stage
2A score of a hundred in a sporting event, especially a batsman's score of a hundred runs in cricket.
（尤指板球等比赛中的）一百得分
he scored the only century of the tour
Example sentencesExamples
- Phil Ryan became yet another batsman to score two centuries against the same opposition when he followed an earlier unbeaten 152 with an undefeated 121.
- Geoff Boycott became the 18th player to score 100 centuries in cricket, and the first to reach the landmark in a Test.
- Has any batsman scored an unbeaten century in each innings of a Test match and still finished on the losing side?
- Andrew Flintoff has just become the eighth English batsman to score a century this summer.
- Syed Mushtaq Ali, the first Indian batsman to score a Test century away from home, has died at 90.
- For a full list of batsmen who scored a century on Test debut, click here.
- Without the injured Henry Olonga the Zimbabweans had little bite to their bowling and two English batsmen scored centuries in the same Test innings for the first time in three years.
- It was the first time since 1949 that a batsman had scored two centuries against South Africa in a Test match.
- It's not often a batsman gets a century when the opposition has scored only one hundred and sixty five.
- Whether he knew it, he was on course for a historic achievement, becoming only the seventh batsmen in Test cricket to score centuries both on their first appearance at home and on their debut abroad.
- Going by statistics we see that he is among the Indian batsmen to score centuries in both the innings.
- And in their past five tests, the batsmen have scored nine centuries.
- On that tour he hit 2 centuries and scored 417 runs, leading the run aggregate for the series.
- Michael Clarke scored a superb century after Australia's pacemen ripped out Pakistan's top order.
- And he is only one of four batsmen ever to score centuries in four consecutive innings, in 2002.
- In a profitable series for batsmen, six different players have scored centuries, which shows the strength of each team's batting line-up.
- His 107 represented the seventh occasion a New Zealand batsman had scored a century on debut.
- There have been cricket batsman who scored several centuries in a match.
- Sadly for Jack Hyams, the number refers to his age rather than his score in his latest attempt to be the only batsman to score a century in eight consecutive decades.
- One of your recent answers talked about batsmen who have scored centuries against all nine possible Test opponents.
3A company in the ancient Roman army, originally of a hundred men.
（古罗马军团的）百人队
Example sentencesExamples
- Centurions took their title from the fact that they commanded a century.
- He often fought at the right front of his Century.
- The Legion's NCOs were 60 Centurions, long-serving professional soldiers who each commanded a century of 80 men.
1. 3.1 An ancient Roman political division for voting.
  百人团（古罗马进行选举的政治单位）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The 193 centuries were determined by wealth, and the richest centuries were also the smallest, so individual votes in these counted more heavily (when a majority of the 193 votes was reached, voting was stopped, so some of the largest centuries rarely got to cast votes).
  The Comitia Centuriata (Centuriate Committee) included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic Classes (knights and senators being the First Class) and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries.
  Membership in the Centuriate Committee required certain economic status, and power was heavily vested in the first eighteen Centuries; the Centuriate Committee was dominated by the First and Second Classes.

Usage

Strictly speaking, centuries run from 01 to 100, meaning that the new century begins on the first day of the year 01 (i.e. 1 January 1901, 1 January 2001, etc.). In practice and in popular perception, however, the new century is held to begin when the significant digits in the date change, e.g. on 1 January 2000, when 1999 became 2000. Since the 1st century ran from the year 1 to the year 100, the ordinal number (i.e. second, third, fourth, etc.) used to denote the century will always be one digit higher than the corresponding cardinal digit(s). Thus, 1066 is a date in the 11th century, 1542 is a date in the 16th century, and so on

Derivatives

centurial

adjective sɛnˈtjʊərɪəl

I shall make seven suggestions, drawn from and keyed to the seven centurial tendencies I have sketched out.
Example sentencesExamples
- According to the Gregorian calendar, which is the civil calendar in use today, years evenly divisible by 4 are leap years, with the exception of centurial years that are not evenly divisible by 400.
- In the Electoral College system the states assume the role of a centurial group and the number of votes that they are entitled to depend on the size of the state's Congressional delegation.
- At the start point of the 21st century, we are opening another centurial history.
- We argue that this behavior of cycle 23 might be a signal for an upcoming centurial solar minimum.

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense 3): from Latin centuria, from centum 'hundred'. sense 1 dates from the early 17th century.

In Latin centuria (from centum ‘hundred’) was used to refer to a group of 100, particularly a company in the ancient Roman army, made up of 100 men. Early usage of the English word carried the meaning ‘a hundred’, as in Shakespeare's ‘a century of prayers’ in Cymbeline. The ‘100 years’ sense dates from the early 17th century, when it was used as a shortened form of the phrase ‘a century of years’. A batsman who scores a century in cricket, a hundred runs, perpetuates the older sense. See also hundred

Definition of century in US English:

century

nounˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)riˈsen(t)SH(ə)rē

1A period of one hundred years.
世纪，百年
a century ago most people walked to work
一个世纪前，绝大多数人步行上班。
Example sentencesExamples
- Making its first appearance a little over a century ago, the lure of the limerick is such that it has grown to become one of the world's most popular verse forms.
- And in the not-too-distant future broadband could have as much effect on the way we live our lives as the introduction of the motor car had a century ago.
- We are just continuing a tradition which dates back several centuries.
- The house is a condensation of the past, representing how this city has developed from a century ago to the present.
- It killed one in seven Americans a little over a century ago, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
- Visitors to the Castle Museum will be able to discover more about the building's grim past centuries ago when it served as a debtors' prison.
- Vietnam has a vibrant literary tradition dating back many centuries.
- Sharing a heavy wooden table with other breakfasters, we felt content knowing we would eat noodles just as the villagers here did a century ago.
- We have come a long way since 78 rpm records helped usher in the jazz era almost a century ago!
- In bright sunshine, thousands of churchgoers from parishes across Manchester and Salford mingled with Bank Holiday crowds to enjoy a tradition dating back two centuries.
- Rowing has a long tradition at both Oxford and Cambridge, dating back centuries.
- Little more than a village a century ago, Palm Springs is proud of its snoozy, sun-baked reputation.
- Tall fescue, a vigorous Old World grass introduced to the New more than a century ago, now reigns over much of this region.
- So people can say what they want but at the end of the day there is still a huge desire for nostalgia and things of the past and reliving how it was in this country a century ago.
- There are now five living generations in the family, from Mrs Sterling to Honey, whose dates of birth are almost a century apart.
- The Mumbai drainage system was built over a century ago, during the period of British colonial rule.
- In China, feudalism, as a social system, collapsed nearly a century ago when the country became a republic in 1911.
- It is a river town in Borneo that is little changed from a century ago when it served as the backdrop for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.
- Drawing on Asian traditions that date back centuries, its spa retreats blend romance and serenity with exotic sensuality.
- That is why it has these ideas dragged up from last century and from two centuries ago.
1. 1.1 A period of one hundred years reckoned from the traditional date of the birth of Jesus Christ.
  世纪（以基督传统诞辰为起点的百年）
  the fifteenth century
  15世纪。
  as modifier a twentieth-century lifestyle
  一种20世纪的生活方式。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The fate of ancient, unexcavated Mayan settlements dating from the fifth century also hangs in the balance.
  By the middle of the eighteenth century, the traditional system of publication was everywhere in shambles.
  Athens reached its zenith during the fifth century B.C., a period known as its Golden Age.
  The earliest scholarly reports of chain letters date to the first decade of the twentieth century and arise periodically.
  The gory de-horning of the Maral deer is an annual ritual in this isolated part of Siberia and dates from the 17th century.
  The dryness of the region helped explain the fine condition of the textiles, which date from the third century BC.
  It consists of thirteen chapters of the Markandeya Purana which probably dates back to the fifth century of the Christian era.
  Most of the present walls date from the fourth, fifth and eleventh centuries and, although broken in places, it is still possible to walk their four-mile length.
  In the fifth century Christianity had conquered Paganism, and Paganism had infected Christianity.
  I conclude that in particular the factors which I have just listed in favour of an 18th century date outweigh those which are against it.
  In the third century before Christ's birth, China is a collection of seven warring states that have yet to unite into one country.
  From the fifth to the fifteenth centuries the dominant power in the area was the Khmer empire, in which various forms of Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism were popular.
  Archaeologists said the workmen had stumbled upon a Roman cemetery at the edge of a settlement dating from the first century AD.
  Its use as a medium for literary texts, pioneered by the early Christians, dates from the first century ce.
  Bexley dates back to at least the fifth century when it was known as Byxlea, a settlement in a clearing of box trees.
  Nevertheless, the St Francis continued to be considered as a work in the style of Botticelli dating from the last decade of the fifteenth century.
  This little house dates from the 15th century and has a traditional chimney.
  The cross bow loops in the south wall are similar to an example in the west wall of Whites Castle and may be dated to the fifteenth century.
  The two statues are generally believed to date from the fifth century but some believe they may be of later origin.
  The collection now includes works dating from the 18th century right up to present day.
  Synonyms
  age, time, period, era, epoch, decade, year, stage
2A score of one hundred in a sporting event, such as a cricket match.
（尤指板球等比赛中的）一百得分
Example sentencesExamples
- His 107 represented the seventh occasion a New Zealand batsman had scored a century on debut.
- And in their past five tests, the batsmen have scored nine centuries.
- There have been cricket batsman who scored several centuries in a match.
- Phil Ryan became yet another batsman to score two centuries against the same opposition when he followed an earlier unbeaten 152 with an undefeated 121.
- Michael Clarke scored a superb century after Australia's pacemen ripped out Pakistan's top order.
- Without the injured Henry Olonga the Zimbabweans had little bite to their bowling and two English batsmen scored centuries in the same Test innings for the first time in three years.
- Geoff Boycott became the 18th player to score 100 centuries in cricket, and the first to reach the landmark in a Test.
- In a profitable series for batsmen, six different players have scored centuries, which shows the strength of each team's batting line-up.
- It's not often a batsman gets a century when the opposition has scored only one hundred and sixty five.
- Sadly for Jack Hyams, the number refers to his age rather than his score in his latest attempt to be the only batsman to score a century in eight consecutive decades.
- Syed Mushtaq Ali, the first Indian batsman to score a Test century away from home, has died at 90.
- Has any batsman scored an unbeaten century in each innings of a Test match and still finished on the losing side?
- On that tour he hit 2 centuries and scored 417 runs, leading the run aggregate for the series.
- Going by statistics we see that he is among the Indian batsmen to score centuries in both the innings.
- One of your recent answers talked about batsmen who have scored centuries against all nine possible Test opponents.
- It was the first time since 1949 that a batsman had scored two centuries against South Africa in a Test match.
- Andrew Flintoff has just become the eighth English batsman to score a century this summer.
- Whether he knew it, he was on course for a historic achievement, becoming only the seventh batsmen in Test cricket to score centuries both on their first appearance at home and on their debut abroad.
- For a full list of batsmen who scored a century on Test debut, click here.
- And he is only one of four batsmen ever to score centuries in four consecutive innings, in 2002.
1. 2.1 A bicycle race of one hundred miles.
  世纪，百年
  as modifier the nation's largest single-day century ride
  Example sentencesExamples
  I rode my first century a few years back and actually wrote a little ride report (which I am including here).
  Now, grinding into the last 14 miles of the century ride, that advice is coming back to me.
  Coaches advise that you should be able to do a 75-mile ride before your century.
3A company in the ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred men.
（古罗马军团的）百人队
Example sentencesExamples
- He often fought at the right front of his Century.
- Centurions took their title from the fact that they commanded a century.
- The Legion's NCOs were 60 Centurions, long-serving professional soldiers who each commanded a century of 80 men.
1. 3.1 An ancient Roman political division for voting.
  百人团（古罗马进行选举的政治单位）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Comitia Centuriata (Centuriate Committee) included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic Classes (knights and senators being the First Class) and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries.
  Membership in the Centuriate Committee required certain economic status, and power was heavily vested in the first eighteen Centuries; the Centuriate Committee was dominated by the First and Second Classes.
  The 193 centuries were determined by wealth, and the richest centuries were also the smallest, so individual votes in these counted more heavily (when a majority of the 193 votes was reached, voting was stopped, so some of the largest centuries rarely got to cast votes).

Usage

In contemporary use, a century is popularly calculated as beginning in a year that ends with ‘00,’ whereas the traditional system designates the ‘00’ year as the final year of a century. This discrepancy was particularly apparent on January 1, 2000, which was commercially celebrated worldwide as the first day of the 21st century, even though January 1, 2001, was regarded as the more proper date for this milestone. Since the 1st century ran from the year 1 to the year 100, the ordinal number (i.e., second, third, fourth, etc.) used to denote the century will always be one digit higher than the corresponding cardinal digit(s). Thus, 1492 is a date in the 15th century, 1776 is in the 18th century, and so on

Origin

Late Middle English (in century (sense 3)): from Latin centuria, from centum ‘hundred’. century (sense 1) dates from the early 17th century.

单词	century
释义	Definition of century in English: century nounPlural centuries ˈsɛntʃʊriˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)ri 1A period of one hundred years. 世纪，百年 a century ago most people walked to work 一个世纪前，绝大多数人步行上班。 Example sentencesExamples We have come a long way since 78 rpm records helped usher in the jazz era almost a century ago! There are now five living generations in the family, from Mrs Sterling to Honey, whose dates of birth are almost a century apart. The house is a condensation of the past, representing how this city has developed from a century ago to the present. Making its first appearance a little over a century ago, the lure of the limerick is such that it has grown to become one of the world's most popular verse forms. Tall fescue, a vigorous Old World grass introduced to the New more than a century ago, now reigns over much of this region. In bright sunshine, thousands of churchgoers from parishes across Manchester and Salford mingled with Bank Holiday crowds to enjoy a tradition dating back two centuries. We are just continuing a tradition which dates back several centuries. And in the not-too-distant future broadband could have as much effect on the way we live our lives as the introduction of the motor car had a century ago. It killed one in seven Americans a little over a century ago, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. Little more than a village a century ago, Palm Springs is proud of its snoozy, sun-baked reputation. Vietnam has a vibrant literary tradition dating back many centuries. So people can say what they want but at the end of the day there is still a huge desire for nostalgia and things of the past and reliving how it was in this country a century ago. It is a river town in Borneo that is little changed from a century ago when it served as the backdrop for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. The Mumbai drainage system was built over a century ago, during the period of British colonial rule. In China, feudalism, as a social system, collapsed nearly a century ago when the country became a republic in 1911. Rowing has a long tradition at both Oxford and Cambridge, dating back centuries. Visitors to the Castle Museum will be able to discover more about the building's grim past centuries ago when it served as a debtors' prison. That is why it has these ideas dragged up from last century and from two centuries ago. Drawing on Asian traditions that date back centuries, its spa retreats blend romance and serenity with exotic sensuality. Sharing a heavy wooden table with other breakfasters, we felt content knowing we would eat noodles just as the villagers here did a century ago. 1.1 A period of a hundred years reckoned from the traditional date of the birth of Christ. 世纪（以基督传统诞辰为起点的百年） the fifteenth century 15世纪。 as modifier a twentieth-century lifestyle 一种20世纪的生活方式。 Example sentencesExamples I conclude that in particular the factors which I have just listed in favour of an 18th century date outweigh those which are against it. Archaeologists said the workmen had stumbled upon a Roman cemetery at the edge of a settlement dating from the first century AD. The cross bow loops in the south wall are similar to an example in the west wall of Whites Castle and may be dated to the fifteenth century. The fate of ancient, unexcavated Mayan settlements dating from the fifth century also hangs in the balance. In the fifth century Christianity had conquered Paganism, and Paganism had infected Christianity. Nevertheless, the St Francis continued to be considered as a work in the style of Botticelli dating from the last decade of the fifteenth century. It consists of thirteen chapters of the Markandeya Purana which probably dates back to the fifth century of the Christian era. The gory de-horning of the Maral deer is an annual ritual in this isolated part of Siberia and dates from the 17th century. This little house dates from the 15th century and has a traditional chimney. From the fifth to the fifteenth centuries the dominant power in the area was the Khmer empire, in which various forms of Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism were popular. The earliest scholarly reports of chain letters date to the first decade of the twentieth century and arise periodically. Athens reached its zenith during the fifth century B.C., a period known as its Golden Age. Most of the present walls date from the fourth, fifth and eleventh centuries and, although broken in places, it is still possible to walk their four-mile length. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the traditional system of publication was everywhere in shambles. The collection now includes works dating from the 18th century right up to present day. Its use as a medium for literary texts, pioneered by the early Christians, dates from the first century ce. Bexley dates back to at least the fifth century when it was known as Byxlea, a settlement in a clearing of box trees. In the third century before Christ's birth, China is a collection of seven warring states that have yet to unite into one country. The two statues are generally believed to date from the fifth century but some believe they may be of later origin. The dryness of the region helped explain the fine condition of the textiles, which date from the third century BC. Synonyms age, time, period, era, epoch, decade, year, stage 2A score of a hundred in a sporting event, especially a batsman's score of a hundred runs in cricket. （尤指板球等比赛中的）一百得分 he scored the only century of the tour Example sentencesExamples Phil Ryan became yet another batsman to score two centuries against the same opposition when he followed an earlier unbeaten 152 with an undefeated 121. Geoff Boycott became the 18th player to score 100 centuries in cricket, and the first to reach the landmark in a Test. Has any batsman scored an unbeaten century in each innings of a Test match and still finished on the losing side? Andrew Flintoff has just become the eighth English batsman to score a century this summer. Syed Mushtaq Ali, the first Indian batsman to score a Test century away from home, has died at 90. For a full list of batsmen who scored a century on Test debut, click here. Without the injured Henry Olonga the Zimbabweans had little bite to their bowling and two English batsmen scored centuries in the same Test innings for the first time in three years. It was the first time since 1949 that a batsman had scored two centuries against South Africa in a Test match. It's not often a batsman gets a century when the opposition has scored only one hundred and sixty five. Whether he knew it, he was on course for a historic achievement, becoming only the seventh batsmen in Test cricket to score centuries both on their first appearance at home and on their debut abroad. Going by statistics we see that he is among the Indian batsmen to score centuries in both the innings. And in their past five tests, the batsmen have scored nine centuries. On that tour he hit 2 centuries and scored 417 runs, leading the run aggregate for the series. Michael Clarke scored a superb century after Australia's pacemen ripped out Pakistan's top order. And he is only one of four batsmen ever to score centuries in four consecutive innings, in 2002. In a profitable series for batsmen, six different players have scored centuries, which shows the strength of each team's batting line-up. His 107 represented the seventh occasion a New Zealand batsman had scored a century on debut. There have been cricket batsman who scored several centuries in a match. Sadly for Jack Hyams, the number refers to his age rather than his score in his latest attempt to be the only batsman to score a century in eight consecutive decades. One of your recent answers talked about batsmen who have scored centuries against all nine possible Test opponents. 3A company in the ancient Roman army, originally of a hundred men. （古罗马军团的）百人队 Example sentencesExamples Centurions took their title from the fact that they commanded a century. He often fought at the right front of his Century. The Legion's NCOs were 60 Centurions, long-serving professional soldiers who each commanded a century of 80 men. 3.1 An ancient Roman political division for voting. 百人团（古罗马进行选举的政治单位） Example sentencesExamples The 193 centuries were determined by wealth, and the richest centuries were also the smallest, so individual votes in these counted more heavily (when a majority of the 193 votes was reached, voting was stopped, so some of the largest centuries rarely got to cast votes). The Comitia Centuriata (Centuriate Committee) included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic Classes (knights and senators being the First Class) and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries. Membership in the Centuriate Committee required certain economic status, and power was heavily vested in the first eighteen Centuries; the Centuriate Committee was dominated by the First and Second Classes. Usage Strictly speaking, centuries run from 01 to 100, meaning that the new century begins on the first day of the year 01 (i.e. 1 January 1901, 1 January 2001, etc.). In practice and in popular perception, however, the new century is held to begin when the significant digits in the date change, e.g. on 1 January 2000, when 1999 became 2000. Since the 1st century ran from the year 1 to the year 100, the ordinal number (i.e. second, third, fourth, etc.) used to denote the century will always be one digit higher than the corresponding cardinal digit(s). Thus, 1066 is a date in the 11th century, 1542 is a date in the 16th century, and so on Derivatives centurial adjective sɛnˈtjʊərɪəl I shall make seven suggestions, drawn from and keyed to the seven centurial tendencies I have sketched out. Example sentencesExamples According to the Gregorian calendar, which is the civil calendar in use today, years evenly divisible by 4 are leap years, with the exception of centurial years that are not evenly divisible by 400. In the Electoral College system the states assume the role of a centurial group and the number of votes that they are entitled to depend on the size of the state's Congressional delegation. At the start point of the 21st century, we are opening another centurial history. We argue that this behavior of cycle 23 might be a signal for an upcoming centurial solar minimum. Origin Late Middle English (in sense 3): from Latin centuria, from centum 'hundred'. sense 1 dates from the early 17th century. In Latin centuria (from centum ‘hundred’) was used to refer to a group of 100, particularly a company in the ancient Roman army, made up of 100 men. Early usage of the English word carried the meaning ‘a hundred’, as in Shakespeare's ‘a century of prayers’ in Cymbeline. The ‘100 years’ sense dates from the early 17th century, when it was used as a shortened form of the phrase ‘a century of years’. A batsman who scores a century in cricket, a hundred runs, perpetuates the older sense. See also hundred Definition of century in US English: century nounˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)riˈsen(t)SH(ə)rē 1A period of one hundred years. 世纪，百年 a century ago most people walked to work 一个世纪前，绝大多数人步行上班。 Example sentencesExamples Making its first appearance a little over a century ago, the lure of the limerick is such that it has grown to become one of the world's most popular verse forms. And in the not-too-distant future broadband could have as much effect on the way we live our lives as the introduction of the motor car had a century ago. We are just continuing a tradition which dates back several centuries. The house is a condensation of the past, representing how this city has developed from a century ago to the present. It killed one in seven Americans a little over a century ago, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. Visitors to the Castle Museum will be able to discover more about the building's grim past centuries ago when it served as a debtors' prison. Vietnam has a vibrant literary tradition dating back many centuries. Sharing a heavy wooden table with other breakfasters, we felt content knowing we would eat noodles just as the villagers here did a century ago. We have come a long way since 78 rpm records helped usher in the jazz era almost a century ago! In bright sunshine, thousands of churchgoers from parishes across Manchester and Salford mingled with Bank Holiday crowds to enjoy a tradition dating back two centuries. Rowing has a long tradition at both Oxford and Cambridge, dating back centuries. Little more than a village a century ago, Palm Springs is proud of its snoozy, sun-baked reputation. Tall fescue, a vigorous Old World grass introduced to the New more than a century ago, now reigns over much of this region. So people can say what they want but at the end of the day there is still a huge desire for nostalgia and things of the past and reliving how it was in this country a century ago. There are now five living generations in the family, from Mrs Sterling to Honey, whose dates of birth are almost a century apart. The Mumbai drainage system was built over a century ago, during the period of British colonial rule. In China, feudalism, as a social system, collapsed nearly a century ago when the country became a republic in 1911. It is a river town in Borneo that is little changed from a century ago when it served as the backdrop for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. Drawing on Asian traditions that date back centuries, its spa retreats blend romance and serenity with exotic sensuality. That is why it has these ideas dragged up from last century and from two centuries ago. 1.1 A period of one hundred years reckoned from the traditional date of the birth of Jesus Christ. 世纪（以基督传统诞辰为起点的百年） the fifteenth century 15世纪。 as modifier a twentieth-century lifestyle 一种20世纪的生活方式。 Example sentencesExamples The fate of ancient, unexcavated Mayan settlements dating from the fifth century also hangs in the balance. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the traditional system of publication was everywhere in shambles. Athens reached its zenith during the fifth century B.C., a period known as its Golden Age. The earliest scholarly reports of chain letters date to the first decade of the twentieth century and arise periodically. The gory de-horning of the Maral deer is an annual ritual in this isolated part of Siberia and dates from the 17th century. The dryness of the region helped explain the fine condition of the textiles, which date from the third century BC. It consists of thirteen chapters of the Markandeya Purana which probably dates back to the fifth century of the Christian era. Most of the present walls date from the fourth, fifth and eleventh centuries and, although broken in places, it is still possible to walk their four-mile length. In the fifth century Christianity had conquered Paganism, and Paganism had infected Christianity. I conclude that in particular the factors which I have just listed in favour of an 18th century date outweigh those which are against it. In the third century before Christ's birth, China is a collection of seven warring states that have yet to unite into one country. From the fifth to the fifteenth centuries the dominant power in the area was the Khmer empire, in which various forms of Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism were popular. Archaeologists said the workmen had stumbled upon a Roman cemetery at the edge of a settlement dating from the first century AD. Its use as a medium for literary texts, pioneered by the early Christians, dates from the first century ce. Bexley dates back to at least the fifth century when it was known as Byxlea, a settlement in a clearing of box trees. Nevertheless, the St Francis continued to be considered as a work in the style of Botticelli dating from the last decade of the fifteenth century. This little house dates from the 15th century and has a traditional chimney. The cross bow loops in the south wall are similar to an example in the west wall of Whites Castle and may be dated to the fifteenth century. The two statues are generally believed to date from the fifth century but some believe they may be of later origin. The collection now includes works dating from the 18th century right up to present day. Synonyms age, time, period, era, epoch, decade, year, stage 2A score of one hundred in a sporting event, such as a cricket match. （尤指板球等比赛中的）一百得分 Example sentencesExamples His 107 represented the seventh occasion a New Zealand batsman had scored a century on debut. And in their past five tests, the batsmen have scored nine centuries. There have been cricket batsman who scored several centuries in a match. Phil Ryan became yet another batsman to score two centuries against the same opposition when he followed an earlier unbeaten 152 with an undefeated 121. Michael Clarke scored a superb century after Australia's pacemen ripped out Pakistan's top order. Without the injured Henry Olonga the Zimbabweans had little bite to their bowling and two English batsmen scored centuries in the same Test innings for the first time in three years. Geoff Boycott became the 18th player to score 100 centuries in cricket, and the first to reach the landmark in a Test. In a profitable series for batsmen, six different players have scored centuries, which shows the strength of each team's batting line-up. It's not often a batsman gets a century when the opposition has scored only one hundred and sixty five. Sadly for Jack Hyams, the number refers to his age rather than his score in his latest attempt to be the only batsman to score a century in eight consecutive decades. Syed Mushtaq Ali, the first Indian batsman to score a Test century away from home, has died at 90. Has any batsman scored an unbeaten century in each innings of a Test match and still finished on the losing side? On that tour he hit 2 centuries and scored 417 runs, leading the run aggregate for the series. Going by statistics we see that he is among the Indian batsmen to score centuries in both the innings. One of your recent answers talked about batsmen who have scored centuries against all nine possible Test opponents. It was the first time since 1949 that a batsman had scored two centuries against South Africa in a Test match. Andrew Flintoff has just become the eighth English batsman to score a century this summer. Whether he knew it, he was on course for a historic achievement, becoming only the seventh batsmen in Test cricket to score centuries both on their first appearance at home and on their debut abroad. For a full list of batsmen who scored a century on Test debut, click here. And he is only one of four batsmen ever to score centuries in four consecutive innings, in 2002. 2.1 A bicycle race of one hundred miles. 世纪，百年 as modifier the nation's largest single-day century ride Example sentencesExamples I rode my first century a few years back and actually wrote a little ride report (which I am including here). Now, grinding into the last 14 miles of the century ride, that advice is coming back to me. Coaches advise that you should be able to do a 75-mile ride before your century. 3A company in the ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred men. （古罗马军团的）百人队 Example sentencesExamples He often fought at the right front of his Century. Centurions took their title from the fact that they commanded a century. The Legion's NCOs were 60 Centurions, long-serving professional soldiers who each commanded a century of 80 men. 3.1 An ancient Roman political division for voting. 百人团（古罗马进行选举的政治单位） Example sentencesExamples The Comitia Centuriata (Centuriate Committee) included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic Classes (knights and senators being the First Class) and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries. Membership in the Centuriate Committee required certain economic status, and power was heavily vested in the first eighteen Centuries; the Centuriate Committee was dominated by the First and Second Classes. The 193 centuries were determined by wealth, and the richest centuries were also the smallest, so individual votes in these counted more heavily (when a majority of the 193 votes was reached, voting was stopped, so some of the largest centuries rarely got to cast votes). Usage In contemporary use, a century is popularly calculated as beginning in a year that ends with ‘00,’ whereas the traditional system designates the ‘00’ year as the final year of a century. This discrepancy was particularly apparent on January 1, 2000, which was commercially celebrated worldwide as the first day of the 21st century, even though January 1, 2001, was regarded as the more proper date for this milestone. Since the 1st century ran from the year 1 to the year 100, the ordinal number (i.e., second, third, fourth, etc.) used to denote the century will always be one digit higher than the corresponding cardinal digit(s). Thus, 1492 is a date in the 15th century, 1776 is in the 18th century, and so on Origin Late Middle English (in century (sense 3)): from Latin centuria, from centum ‘hundred’. century (sense 1) dates from the early 17th century.
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