[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

century \cen"tury\, n.; pl. centuries. l. centuria in
   senses 1  3, fr. centum a hundred: cf. f. centurie. see
   cent.
   1. a hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a
      hundred things. archaic.
      1913 webster

            and on it said a century of prayers.  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. a period of a hundred years; as, this event took place
      over two centuries ago.
      1913 webster

   note: century, in the reckoning of time, although often used
         in a general way of any series of hundred consecutive
         years as, a century of temperance work, usually
         signifies a division of the christian era, consisting
         of a period of one hundred years ending with the
         hundredth year from which it is named; as, the first
         century a. d. 1-100 inclusive; the seventh
         century a.d. 601-700; the eighteenth century
         a.d. 1701-1800. with words or phrases connecting
         it with some other system of chronology it is used of
         similar division of those eras; as, the first century
         of rome a.u.c. 1-100.
         1913 webster

   3. rom. antiq.
      a a division of the roman people formed according to
          their property, for the purpose of voting for civil
          officers.
      b one of sixty companies into which a legion of the army
          was divided. it was commanded by a centurion.
          1913 webster

   century plant bot., the agave americana, formerly
      supposed to flower but once in a century; -- hence the
      name. see agave.

   the magdeburg centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the
      first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes,
      compiled in the 16th century by protestant scholars at
      magdeburg.
      1913 webster
see also:
centuries cent a d century plant agave americana 
agave the magdeburg centuries 

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