Synonyms for century
All synonyms
Noun
1. Age — A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and…
age, centenary dated, centennium rare, yearhundred rare
Definitions
- n. 1
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.
Related words
- Word family
- centurial centuries-long centurion centennial centenary centenarian
- Phrases
- century egg century plant
- Other spellings
- centry
Forms
- Plural
- centuries → ages, centenaries, centennia, yearhundreds…
Example sentences
- hundred This vending machine takes only hundred-yen coins.
- ton Sami offered Layla a shit ton of money to do that.
By length
- 3 letters
- age1, ton1
- 7 letters
- hundred2
- 9 letters
- centenary4
- 10 letters
- centennium
- 11 letters
- yearhundred
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hundred2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- siècle
- Italiano
- secolo
- Deutsch
- Jahrhundert
- Català
- segle