Meanings (ES + gloss)
centuria • siglo
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 < quettaseco…
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < secon…
centuria
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
Phrases
American Centurycenturialcenturiedcenturies-longcentury breakcentury eggcentury of humiliationcentury plantcentury yearcenturyfulcenturylonghalf a centuryhalf-centurylight centurylong eighteenth centurylong nineteenth centurymicrocenturymid-centurymid-century modernmidcenturymulticenturynanocenturyof the centuryquarter-centurysemicenturysesquicenturyshort 20th centuryshort twentieth centurytriple centuryturn of the centuryuncenturyyestercentury
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