century

noun8

1. •
   a period of time that lasts 100 years, such as the years from 1901 to 2000

   • In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery. — 2024
2. •
   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.
   • They put on a century stand to help their team recover from 57–4 to 198–4.
3. •
   A score of one hundred points.

   • That was his tenth professional century.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
6. •
   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. — 1624
7. •
   A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
8. •
   A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.