century: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 12 letter points · starts with C · ends with Y
Meaning of century
noun
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.
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.
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
Listed forms: centuries.
Source: Wiktionary — century.
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Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for century.
noun
ten 10s
- hundred
- 100
- C
- one C
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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Letter-value score of century
C(3) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) + U(1) + R(1) + Y(4) = 12 points.
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Anagrams of century
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from century
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