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Century Period Hundred Noun Years Stating Date 19th

word century
definition
noun
A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
...celebrated figures of the late eighteenth century.
...a 17th-century merchant's house.
A century is any period of a hundred years.
The drought there is the worst in a century.
In cricket, a century is a score of one hundred runs or more by one batsman .
inflections centuries
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