English-Danish translations for century

• århundred
• århundrede
  Det 21. århundrede kan meget vel blive Europas århundrede. The 21st century could well be Europe's century.
  Det 21. århundrede er kommunikationens århundrede. The twenty-first century is the century of communications.
  Nogle opfatter det 20. århundrede som et århundrede med krig og blodsudgydelser. Some consider the 20th century a century of war and bloodshed.

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