Usually means: One hundred years time period.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. century: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. century: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. century: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. century: Collins English Dictionary
  5. century: Vocabulary.com
  6. Century, century: Wordnik
  7. century: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. century: Wiktionary
  9. century: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. century: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. century: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Century, century: Dictionary.com
  13. century: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. century: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Century (American band), Century (book), Century (comics), Century (cricket), Century (disambiguation), Century (film), Century (font), Century (imprint), Century (military unit), Century (novel), Century (ship), Century (song), Century, The Century (Los Angeles), The Century (New York City), The Century (book), The Century (building): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Century: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. century: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. century: Rhymezone
  19. century: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. century: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. century: Free Dictionary
  22. century: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. century: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. century: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Century (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Century: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. century: CCI Computer
  2. Century (imprint), century: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. century: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Century: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. century, century: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. century, the century: Urban Dictionary
  3. Century: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Century: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Century: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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 (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
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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