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century

A2 noun

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  1. thế kỉ

    A 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, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

    In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery.

  2. đội quân một trăm người (La Mã cổ đại)

    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 (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

    Holonyms: maniple, cohort, legion

  3. khu vực bầu cử (La Mã cổ đại)

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

  4. một trăm

    A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.

    'tis the subject of whole books: I might cite a century of authors pro and con.

  5. cú đánh trăm điểm (cricket)

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

    He has scored 44 limited-overs centuries.

  6. trăm điểm

    A score of one hundred points.

    That was his tenth professional century.

  7. cuộc đua một trăm đơn vị

    A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.

  8. tờ một trăm đô la

    A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

    us · informal

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