A period of 100 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.

Used to indicate the most remarkable example of its kind in recent history.

A surname.

divided into hundreds

(obsolete) To divide into hundreds.

plural of century

Of or pertaining to a century.

A historian who distinguishes time by centuries, especially one of those who wrote the Magdeburg Centuries.

(rare, chiefly literary) Having existed for centuries; ancient.

plural of centuriator