Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun century

2 senses of century

Sense 1
century -- (a period of 100 years)
       => time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")

Sense 2
hundred, 100, C, century, one C -- (ten 10s)
       => large integer -- (an integer equal to or greater than ten)