English-Czech translations for century

• století
  Dvacáté první století by mohlo být stoletím Evropy. The 21st century could well be Europe's century.
  Žijeme ve 21. století, ale máme instituce z 20. století. We are in the 21st century, but we have 20th century institutions.
  To byl svět dvacátého století. That was the 20th century world.

Definition of century

• A period of 100 consecutive years; ''often specifically'a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the ''twentieth century'', which stretches from 1901 through 2000, or 1900 through 1999. The ''first century AD'was from 1 to 100
• A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes soldiers or other men , commanded by a centurion
• A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred
• A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership
• A race a hundred units in length

Examples

• That was his tenth professional century

Related words

• quarter-century
• half-century
• light-century
• century egg
• century plant
• turn of the century
• 18th century
• of the century
• long nineteenth century