Century

n. pl. Centuries (#).

1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
1. A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
2. One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
Century plant (Bot.),
the Agave Americana, formerly supposed to flower but once in a century; -- hence the name. See Agave.
The Magdeburg Centuries ,
an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.