century
noun/ˈsentʃəri/
(plural centuries)
Слово англійською: century
Переклад century українською: столі́ття, вік (сто ро́ків)
Детальний опис
- a period of 100 years
- A century ago, Valparaiso was the country's main port.
- He was born more than a century after the death of Confucius.
- for centuries They have lived there for centuries.
- over the centuries Their techniques have evolved over the centuries.
- through the centuries Those stories have been told again and again through the centuries.
- (abbreviation c, cent.)any of the periods of 100 years before or after the birth of Christ
- the twentieth century (= AD 1901–2000 or 1900–1999)
- during the second half of the fifteenth century
- eighteenth-century writers
- the past/previous century
- the beginning/middle/end of the century
- in the early years of the 17th century
- in the first quarter of the century
- the last decade of the 20th century
- throughout the latter part of the 12th century
- in a century He lived in the 16th century.
- in the early/late 20th century
- in the mid-nineteenth century
- The structure dates back to the 9th century.
- By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born.
- (in cricket) a score of 100 runs by one player
Word Originlate Middle English originally referring to a company in the ancient Roman army, of a hundred men: from Latin centuria, from centum ‘hundred’. Sense (1) dates from the early 17th cent.
Idioms
the turn of the century/year
- the time when a new century/year starts
- It was built at the turn of the century.
- The team are unbeaten since the turn of the year.