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noun a period of 100 years
noun ten 10s
originFrom Middle English centurie (“a count of one hundred (of anything); a division of the Roman army; century; a division of land”), from Old French centurie, from Latin centuria, from centum (“one hundred”). The most common modern use is a shortening of century of years.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0