century
gb/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/ us/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
A2
انگلیسی
~ 500
معنیها
۰ معنی
اسم
A2
quantity
1
a 100-year time span
A time period of 100 years.
الگوی کاربرد:
[a/the] century
اشتباه رایج:
Learners sometimes confuse 'century' with 'decade', which is only 10 years.
هممعنیها
hundred years (Exact equivalent but less formal and less commonly used in historical contexts.)
متضادها
decade (Refers to a period of ten years, the opposite in scale.)
ترکیبهای رایج
turn of the century
|21st century
|centuries ago
|early 20th century
|mid-century
موضوعها
history
|time
|core_vocabulary
نمونهها
- The 20th century saw rapid technological change.
- Many traditions date back several centuries.
- The building was constructed in the 18th century.
- We are living in the 21st century.
- The turn of the century brought new challenges.
نمونههای زبانآموزی
- The 20th century started in 1901.
- People lived very differently a century ago.
- We are now in the 21st century.
- A century has 100 years.
- The city is more than one century old.
اسم
B2
entity
2
100 runs scored in cricket
In cricket, when one player scores 100 runs in one turn at batting.
اشتباه رایج:
Non-cricket fans may think 'century' here means 100 years instead of 100 runs.
هممعنیها
hundred (Informal shorthand for scoring 100 runs in cricket.)
متضادها
duck (In cricket, scoring zero runs in an innings.)
ترکیبهای رایج
score a century
|hit a century
|make a century
موضوعها
sports
|core_vocabulary
نمونهها
- He scored his third century of the season.
- The crowd cheered as she reached her century.
- Scoring a century is a major achievement for any batsman.
نمونههای زبانآموزی
- He scored a century in the match.
- She made her first century last year.
- A player gets a century when they score 100 runs.
دستور زبان
صورت پایه
century
IPA
GB/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
US/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
هجاها و تکیه
cen - tury (۲ هجا)
Stress on 1st syllable (cen)
صورتهای واژه
Noun
- Base: century
- Plural: centuries
خانوادهٔ واژه
Forms
centuries
noun
Related words
centennial
adjective
centenary
noun
Advanced or less common
centenarian
noun
bicentennial
adjective
عبارتها
centuries ago
1/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚiz əɡˈoʊ/
fixed phrase
a very long time ago (hundreds of years)
A time many hundreds of years before now.
نمونهها
- This castle was built centuries ago.
- Centuries ago, people traveled by horse and carriage.
quarter-century
1/kwˈɔɹtɚ sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
fixed phrase
a time span of 25 years
A period of twenty-five years.
نمونهها
- He worked there for over a quarter-century.
- The company is celebrating a quarter-century in business.
turn of the century
1/tˈɚn əv ðə sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
fixed phrase
time when one century ends and another begins
The time when one hundred-year period ends and the next begins.
نمونهها
- Many new inventions appeared around the turn of the century.
- She was born at the turn of the 19th century.