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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
century/ˈsentʃəri/

▶noun (pl. centuries)

1 a period of one hundred years, in particular each of a number of such periods reckoned from the date of the birth of Christ.

2 a batsman's score of a hundred runs in cricket.

3 a company of a hundred men in the ancient Roman army.
■ an electoral division of ancient Rome.

– derivatives
centurial adjective.

– origin ME: from L. centuria, from centum ‘hundred’.

'century' also found in these Oxford entries:

accolade - Acmeist - AD - aggravate - algebra - alibi - allemande - Almohad - Almoravid - aloe - ammonia - Anabaptism - Angle - Anglo-Saxon - Aramaic - Arthurian - assassin - Augustan - Australoid - Aztec - Baha'i - bank - battlecruiser - beaux arts - berserk - Biedermeier - black - blatant - bloody - bluecoat - Boer - Boxer - Buddhism - budget - bugger - Bulgar - Burgundian - c - cakewalk - camera - Camorra - cancan - candid - canzonetta - carrack - cassation - cathedral - Caucasian - cent. - centurion

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at the turn of the 20th and the 21th century
at the turn of the century
Australian English - 19th century
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date back to the first to fifth century AD
dating as back as the 13th century
Eighteenth Century or Eighteenth century
for the 21st century
FOR THE first century
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