century

Universal Words noun (plural centuries) 1 a period of 100 years 2 (abbreviation c, cent.) any of the periods of 100 years before or after the birth of Christ: the 20th century (= AD19012000 or 19001999) * eighteenth-century writers * By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born. 3 (in cricket) a score of 100 RUNS by one player in one INNINGS IDIOMS see TURNn.