A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred. Century is sometimes abbreviated as c.
What do we mean by century?
1 : a period of 100 years a company that has been in business for more than a century specifically : one of the 100-year divisions of the Christian era or of the preceding period of human history the third century A.D./B.C the 18th century.
How do you use century in a sentence?
Century sentence example
- We're living in the 21st century , Mary. ...
- After a century , electricity was still being generated. ...
- He was born in Ireland in the eighteenth century . ...
- As for time; it could have been a year or a century ago. ...
- A century later, machines entered the scene.
