Definition of Century

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Century

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.

A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.

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Century Quotations

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. Thompson

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
Rush Limbaugh

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Pope John Paul II

Century Translations

century in Afrikaans is eeu
century in Dutch is eeuw
century in German is Jahrhundert
century in Italian is secolo
century in Spanish is siglo, centuria

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