Definition of: century

(sen′chə·rē) noun plural ·ries
1. One hundred consecutive years, reckoning from a specific date.
2. A period of 100 years in any system of chronology, especially in reckoning from the first year of the Christian era: the twentieth century, A.D. 1901–2000.
3. A body of Roman foot soldiers (at one time 100 men); one sixtieth of a legion; also, one of the 193 divisions into which the Roman people were divided according to their incomes.
4. A hundred; hundred things of the same kind collectively. [<L centuria <centum hundred]