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# century

noun (a century, centuries)

«century» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A century is a period of one hundred years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#m1)
2. A century also means one of the hundred-year periods counted in history, such as «the twenty-first century» (the one we live in now). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#m2)
3. In cricket a century is a score of one hundred runs by one player. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#m3)

### In the lessons

In maths a century is 100 years: 2 centuries = 200 years, half a century = 50 years. In history lessons centuries help to say when things happened, like the century when cars were invented. In sport (cricket in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland) a batter who scores 100 runs makes a century. Phrases: a century ago, for centuries, the turn of the century.

### Examples

- A century is one hundred years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x1)
- This old oak tree has stood here for more than a century. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x2)
- Castles were built many centuries ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x3)
- Half a century is fifty years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x4)
- People have played football for centuries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x5)
- The batter scored a century in the cricket match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x6)
- In which century were trains invented? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x7)
- A turtle can live for about a century. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x8)
- But that century passed, and no one freed me. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/#x9)

### Note

Plural: centuries (y → ies). The word comes from the Latin for «hundred», like «cent» and «centimetre». Trap: the century number is one more than the hundreds of the years — years beginning «19..» belong to the twentieth century. In maths problems: 1 century = 100 years = 10 decades.

## In Jewish tradition

In maths a century is 100 years: 2 centuries = 200 years, half a century = 50 years. In history lessons centuries help to say when things happened, like the century when cars were invented. In sport (cricket in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland) a batter who scores 100 runs makes a century. Phrases: a century ago, for centuries, the turn of the century.

### Examples

- Commentaries by Judah Halevi, and by Eben Ezra, of the 12th century, are also known. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/century/#x1)
- But Isaac Myer states that there are un- doubted traces of pointing in Hebrew MSS. of the second century. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/century/#x2)
- Hence this book was known already in the second or at the beginning of the third century of the Christian Era. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/century/#x3)

### Note

Plural: centuries (y → ies). The word comes from the Latin for «hundred», like «cent» and «centimetre». Trap: the century number is one more than the hundreds of the years — years beginning «19..» belong to the twentieth century. In maths problems: 1 century = 100 years = 10 decades.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «century» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/century/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«century» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/century.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «century» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/century/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«century» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/century.html) on Mova free.