Synonyms for century
ˈsɛn tʃə ricen·tu·ry

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1. centurynoun

   Synonyms:
   centuria

2. centurynoun

   A period of 100 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.

   Synonyms:
   centuria

3. centurynoun

   A unit in ancient Roman, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

   Synonyms:
   centuria

4. centurynoun

   A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

   Synonyms:
   centuria

5. centurynoun

   A hundred things; a hundred.

   Synonyms:
   centuria

6. centurynoun

   A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.

   Synonyms:
   centuria

7. centurynoun

   A ride 100 miles in length.

   Synonyms:
   centuria

8. centurynoun

   A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

   Synonyms:
   centuria

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.3 / 13 votes

1. centurynoun

   a period of 100 years

   Synonyms:
   hundred, one C

2. hundred, 100, C, century, one Cnoun

   ten 10s

   Synonyms:
   hundred, light speed, degree Celsius, nose candy, snow, coke, vitamin C, ascorbic acid, deoxycytidine monophosphate, one C, degree centigrade, ampere-second, coulomb, speed of light, atomic number 6, blow, carbon, cytosine

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1. • Large Integer
   • Time Period

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1. 100-year

   it stands for 100 years

   it's been a century since it last happened

   Submitted by acronimous on June 12, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. centurynoun

   Synonyms:
   hundred

2. centurynoun

   Synonyms:
   centenary, a hundred years

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1. centurynoun

   Synonyms:
   centenary

   Associated words:
   centennial, secular

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1. List of paraphrases for "century":

   xxi, twenty-first, siècle, siglo, half-century, age, millennium

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1. Rebecca Mikula-Wright:

   ?Japan's approach to reducing emissions is being watched closely throughout Asia, if investors see strong and positive policy signals that encourage deeper emissions reductions by 2030, and a clear path to net-zero emissions by mid-century, they will respond with greater investment in clean technology and climate-resilient infrastructure.

2. Michael Gilman:

   Around the turn of the century, as men’s brands started to come out, people started to realize that taking care of yourself is not effeminate or girly, some of those taboos came down, and more barbershops and spas broke the barriers and let men know it’s OK to do this stuff.

3. Eric Chu:

   The 21st century is a time of cooperation, not a time of resistance, we must use a healthy attitude, a positive attitude to welcome the age of cooperation between our two sides.

4. Myriah Williams:

   He fits the time frame for the erasures, which we know would have been in the late 16th century, but we can only speculate that he might have been the one to take it upon himself to 'cleanse' the manuscript.

5. David Bergstein:

   Structurally they are betting the farm and everything possible to get through these midterms, and they are just opening up the checkbook to do it. ' Public investment shrinks as safety net balloonsWhatever the immediate political impact, if President Joe Biden ultimately signs anything like the proposed program, it would mark a new era in Washington's role in the economy.Over the past 50 years, federal spending, as a share of the nation's economic output, has averaged about 20.6 %, according to calculations by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a centrist group that argues for budgetary restraint. Washington has significantly exceeded that level only in times of crisis : Spending reached 24 % of the nation's gross domestic product during Obama's first term immediately after the 2008 financial crisis and roughly 32 % during the Covid pandemic, federal figures show. ( Federal spending as a share of the economy reached its modern high of more than 40 % at the height of World War II.) Though federal spending over the past half century has remained relatively constant at about one-fifth of the economy, the composition of that spending has shifted dramatically. Over that period, public investment -- defined primarily as federal spending on infrastructure, education and training, and support for research and development -- has declined, while the safety net -- including such payments to individuals as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food assistance and various tax credits for families -- has soared. Its totally different from anything put forward by Obama or Clinton. In terms of any kind of coherent strategic focus theres been nothing like this since the build-out of the suburbs, and the buildup of the educational system.Josh Bivens, research director, Economic Policy InstituteIn 1969, federal figures show, public investment and payments to individuals each consumed nearly one-third of total federal spending, an amount equal to about 6 % of the economy. By 2019, the last year before Washington poured huge sums into the Covid crisis, public investment had fallen to just 12.5 % of Responsible Federal Budget while payments to individuals had grown past 70 %. Public investment now equals only about 2.5 % of the economy, while payments to individuals consume more than five times as much.The exact distribution between public investment and safety net spending in the Democratic plans isn't known, because the party hasn't released details on the funding levels in the $ 3.5 trillion budget blueprint that Senate Democrats recently agreed on. But it's clear that the proposal -- coupled with the bipartisan infrastructure agreement advancing on a separate track -- would represent a huge expansion on both fronts.The infusion of new money for public investment might be most striking, given how steadily it has lost ground in federal priorities. Public investment fell from about 30 % of federal spending in the late 1960s to about 20 % by the late 1970s and 15 % by the mid-1990s, a plateau from which it's since drifted further down except for a brief recovery under Obama's first-term stimulus plan. The budget plans Senate Democrats are advancing would provide a more lasting turnaround. The bipartisan plan would spend almost $ 600 billion on.