■ noun ( plural centuries )
1》 a period of one hundred years, in particular each of a number of such periods reckoned from the date of the birth of Christ.
2》 a batsman's score of a hundred runs in cricket.
3》 a company of a hundred men in the ancient Roman army.
↘an electoral division of ancient Rome.
Derivatives
centurial adjective
Origin
ME: from L. centuria , from centum 'hundred'.