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How to pronounce century
Say it like this: /ˈsɛn.(t)ʃ(ə.)ɹi/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does century mean?
nounA 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, o
“In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery.”
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 (guard
“Holonyms: maniple, cohort, legion”
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
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