English-Finnish translations for century

• vuosisata
  2000-luku voi hyvinkin olla Euroopan vuosisata. The 21st century could well be Europe's century.
  Alkanut vuosisata on tieteen, tutkimuksen ja teknisen kehityksen vuosisata. The 21st century will be the century of science, research, and technical development.
  Meidän vuosisadastamme tulee edistyksen vuosisata, vuosisata, jonka aikana hurjimmatkin utopiat toteutuvat. Our century will be a century of progress in which the wildest utopian ideals may be realised.
• kenturia

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