century

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈsɛntʃəri/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈsɛntʃəri/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(sen′chə rē)

Inflections of 'century' (n): npl: centuries
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
century n (100-year period)siglo nm
 Some say the Industrial Revolution began in the eighteenth century.
 Hay quien dice que la Revolución Industrial empezó en el siglo XVIII.
century n (hundred years)siglo nm
  (literario)centuria nf
 This sturdy house will last a century.
 Esta robusta casa aguantará un siglo.
century n (cricket score) (cricket, snooker)centena nf
  (voz inglesa)century nm
 That man has scored more centuries than anyone else in the history of the game.
 Ese hombre ha anotado más centenas que nadie en la historia del cricket.
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Additional Translations
InglésEspañol
century n (hundred of [sth])cien nm
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
half-century n (fifty years)medio siglo adj + nm
half-century n (group of fifty)cincuenta nm
half-century n (sports: score)cincuenta tantos, cincuenta puntos adj + nmpl
half-century adj (relating to fifty years)medio centenario loc adj
 We are approaching the half-century point since the end of the war.
 Nos estamos acercando al medio centenario de la guerra.
turn of the century n (point when one century becomes another)cambio de siglo nm
 At the turn of the century Queen Victoria was still on the throne.
 En el cambio de siglo la reina Victoria aún estaba en el trono.
  a comienzos del siglo loc adv
  a finales del siglo loc adv
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'century' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
In the English description:
abstract expressionism - Art Nouveau - Arts and Crafts Movement - baroque - Beaux Arts - Black Death - Black Hole of Calcutta - Blackbeard - C - cancan - cittern - clavichord - Columbian Exchange - conquistador - cubism - culverin - dadaism - eighteenth - eighth - eleventh - enlightenment - expressionism - fauvism - Ferdinand - fifteenth - fin de siècle - fourteenth - French and Indian War - frock coat - galop - Georgian - Gilded Age - gramophone - High Renaissance - Hun - Illuminati - impressionism - industrial revolution - Jacobean - jazz - Luddite - macaroni - Magna Carta - manifest destiny - mesmerizer - metaphysical - minuet - modern ballet - modern dance - modernism
Spanish:
centuria - siglo - cambio de siglo - cuatrocentista - decimonónico - del siglo - dieciochesco - finisecular - in sécula - jarcia - ochocentista - principios de siglo - secular

Collocations: the [21st, 5th] century (BCE, AD, BC), [15th] -century [art, literature], in the [early, late, mid] [15th] century, more...

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