Century
/ˈsɛn.tʃər.i/
A century is a period of 100 years, like how your grandparents were born a long time ago, in a different century than you were.
Examples
- A century is a long time, like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth a hundred years ago.
- My great-grandparents were born over a century ago, which is hard to imagine!
- In a century, kids might play video games that we can't even dream of today.
Synonyms
hundred years
time period
era
age
decade
Antonyms
moment
second
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