century
gb/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/ us/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
A2
อังกฤษ
~ 500
ความหมาย
0 ความหมาย
คำนาม
A2
quantity
1
a 100-year time span
A time period of 100 years.
รูปแบบการใช้:
[a/the] century
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners sometimes confuse 'century' with 'decade', which is only 10 years.
คำพ้องความหมาย
hundred years (Exact equivalent but less formal and less commonly used in historical contexts.)
คำตรงข้าม
decade (Refers to a period of ten years, the opposite in scale.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
turn of the century
|21st century
|centuries ago
|early 20th century
|mid-century
หัวข้อ
history
|time
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- 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.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- 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.
คำนาม
B2
entity
2
100 runs scored in cricket
In cricket, when one player scores 100 runs in one turn at batting.
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Non-cricket fans may think 'century' here means 100 years instead of 100 runs.
คำพ้องความหมาย
hundred (Informal shorthand for scoring 100 runs in cricket.)
คำตรงข้าม
duck (In cricket, scoring zero runs in an innings.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
score a century
|hit a century
|make a century
หัวข้อ
sports
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- 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.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- He scored a century in the match.
- She made her first century last year.
- A player gets a century when they score 100 runs.
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รูปคำในพจนานุกรม
century
IPA
GB/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
US/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
พยางค์และการเน้นเสียง
cen - tury (2 พยางค์)
Stress on 1st syllable (cen)
รูปคำ
Noun
- Base: century
- Plural: centuries
กลุ่มคำที่เกี่ยวข้อง
Forms
centuries
noun
Related words
centennial
adjective
centenary
noun
Advanced or less common
centenarian
noun
bicentennial
adjective
วลีและสำนวน
centuries ago
1/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚiz əɡˈoʊ/
fixed phrase
a very long time ago (hundreds of years)
A time many hundreds of years before now.
ตัวอย่าง
- 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.
ตัวอย่าง
- 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.
ตัวอย่าง
- Many new inventions appeared around the turn of the century.
- She was born at the turn of the 19th century.