The Webster Dictionary

1.A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.[Archaic.]And on it said a century of prayers. Shak.

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

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