century

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɛnt͡ʃʊɹi/|/ˈsɛnt͡ʃɹi/    美 /ˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)ɹi/|/ˈsen(t)ʃ(ə)ɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A period of one hundred 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.
    — Holonyms: kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
  2. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
    — Holonyms: maniple, cohort, legion
  3. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
  4. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
    — 'tis the subject of whole books: I might cite a century of authors pro and con.
  5. A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
    — He has scored 44 limited-overs centuries.
  6. A score of one hundred points.
    — That was his tenth professional century.
  7. A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
  8. A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars. US,informal

词形变化

centuries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
American Century centurial centuried centuries-long century break century egg centuryful centurylong century of humiliation century plant century year half a century half-century light century long eighteenth century long nineteenth century microcentury mid-century midcentury mid-century modern multicentury nanocentury of the century quarter-century semicentury sesquicentury short 20th century short twentieth century triple century turn of the century uncentury yestercentury
相关词
centurion centennial semicentennial multicentennial bicentennial sesquicentennial tricentennial quadricentennial quincentennial sexcentennial septicentennial octocentennial novocentennial secular plurisecular multisecular centenary bicentenary tricentenary quadricentenary quincentenary sexcentenary septicentenary octocentenary novocentenary centenarian multicentenarian

词源

From Middle English centurie (“a count of one hundred (of anything); a division of the Roman army; century; a division of land”), from Old French centurie, from Latin centuria, from centum (“one hundred”). The most common modern use is a shortening of century of years.
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