century
a period of 100 years
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,109 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,419 times across 191,579 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a period of 100 years
- ten 10s also: hundred, 100, C, one C
century in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It was conquered by Rome in the fourth century B.C.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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The last decade of the sixteenth century was marked by an outburst of sonneteering.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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Generally speaking, they were valued as they deserved by the eighteenth century and undervalued by the nineteenth.
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two · Samuel Johnson · Chapter 1
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The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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A century before, a Hawn had settled in one bottom, the lower one, and a Honeycutt in the other.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1