Collocations for "century"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "century" in context.
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century
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the [21st, 5th] century (BCE, AD, BC)
- in the [early, late, mid] [15th] century
- in the present century
- [and, well] into the next century
- [in] the century to come
- [in, during, before] the [last, past] century
- in centuries [past, gone by]
- has been around for centuries
- for more than [two] centuries
- for a century (and a half)
- was [invented, made] a century ago
- a century of [progress, prosperity, war]
- centuries of [history, war, violence]
- countless centuries of [history]
- [London, agriculture] [through] the centuries
- [London] [throughout] the centuries
- at the turn of [this, the last, the] century
- it took centuries for people to [accept, realize, overcome, become used to]
- cricket: the batsman [scored, hit] a century
- cricket: the batsman [hit] his [first, tenth] career century
- the [sale, deal, goal] of the century
- [15th] -century [art, literature]
- [21st] -century [men, devices, solutions]
- a turn-of-the-century [style, phenomenon]
'century' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
abstract
- architecture
- armor
- art
- before
- contemporary
- decade
- depiction
- embrace
- entire
- evolve
- exhibit
- glass
- half
- heist
- history
- kingdom
- manner
- mid
- milestone
- painter
- painting
- part
- playwright
- plot
- quarter
- rage
- skeleton
- slavery
- tapestry
- tenth
- turn