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centuries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Century \Cen"tu*ry\, n.; pl. Centuries. [L. centuria (in senses 1 & 3), fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centurie. See Cent.]
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A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. [Archaic.]
And on it said a century of prayers.
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A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although often used in a general way of any series of hundred consecutive years (as, a century of temperance work), usually signifies a division of the Christian era, consisting of a period of one hundred years ending with the hundredth year from which it is named; as, the first century ( a. d. 1-100 inclusive); the seventh century ( a. d. 601-700); the eighteenth century ( a. d. 1701-1800). With words or phrases connecting it with some other system of chronology it is used of similar division of those eras; as, the first century of Rome (A.U.C. 1-100).
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(Rom. Antiq.)
A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
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One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
Century plant (Bot.), the Agave Americana, formerly supposed to flower but once in a century; -- hence the name. See Agave.
The Magdeburg Centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of century English)
Wikipedia
Centuries are periods of one hundred consecutive years.
Centuries may also refer to:
- Centuries, Hythe, a Grade II listed building
- Magdeburg Centuries, a celebrated ecclesiastical history
- "Centuries" (song), a song by Fall Out Boy
"Centuries" is a song by the American alternative rock band Fall Out Boy, released September 9, 2014 as the lead single from their sixth studio album, American Beauty/American Psycho (2015).The song's genre is pop rock. It was co-written by Fall Out Boy, with two producers. A gladiator-themed music video was created. The single reached No. 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA. It reached first position on the UK Rock and Metal Chart. This is also the band's fourth top ten hit and first in eight years since " This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" in 2007. In 2015, "Centuries" was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. Fall Out Boy has played the song numerous times on televised performances and was used as ESPN's official theme song for sports coverage. A remixed version of the song features vocals by Juicy J appeared on the remixed album Make America Psycho Again.
Usage examples of "centuries".
I mounted the stone steps worn with countless centuries of footfalls and spiraled my way up and up, only a little bit afraid.
I reasoned that as long as we were probably going to spend the next dozen or so centuries together, we might as well learn to get along.
I moved around quite a bit during the next several centuries, however.
We ran across a tribe of Morindim and they told us that they've been using that bridge for centuries to visit the Karands.
The founder of a dynasty is usually vigorous and gifted, but as the centuries roll by, his successors become progressively less so.
The passing centuries have altered the countryside down there to some degree, but now that I think back on it, I followed almost exactly the same route as I did three thousand years later when a group of friends and I were going south on the trail of the Orb.
Just in passing, I'd like to let you know that over the centuries I've spent far more time holding tankards than I have drinking from them.
Beldin had studied music for a couple of quiet centuries once, and that hymn was very impressive, but eighty-four-part harmony is just a little complicated for my taste.
The Tolnedrans have been objecting to this rather informal yearly gathering for centuries now--largely because they aren't invited.
I don't have time to come down here every few centuries to educate you.
I've been obliged to do a lot of things down through those endless centuries, but explaining our rather unique situation to those boys could very well have been the most important.
Pol and I had just spent several centuries trying to keep a lid on open hostilities here in the West, and this incipient confrontation threatened to blow that lid off.
A few of them did manage to escape, but it was centuries before there were enough Nadraks again even to worry about.
Over the centuries, his Grolims have killed more Angaraks than the Alorns ever have.
The Vorduvians and the Honethites had been passing the crown back and forth between them for centuries, so when Ran Vordue XX died without an heir, the Honeths assumed that it was their turn again.