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- pronunciation:
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centuries |
| definition 1: |
a unit of time equal to one hundred years.
Some giant tortoises live for more than a century. |
| definition 2: |
one of the hundred-year periods into which human history is divided. Centuries are usually counted forward or backward from the beginning of the Christian era.
The twenty-first century began in the year 2001 and will end in 2100. |
| related words: |
age |
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