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▸ noun: 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), commanded by a centurion.
▸ noun: A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
▸ noun: A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
▸ noun: (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
▸ noun: (snooker) A score of one hundred points.
▸ noun: (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
▸ noun: (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
▸ noun: A surname.
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20th century,
21st century,
19th century,
18th century,
17th century,
16th century,
15th century,
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Adjectives:
nineteenth,
twentieth,
eighteenth,
seventeenth,
sixteenth,
early,
late,
19th,
last,
fifteenth,
thirteenth
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