century
gb/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/ us/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
A2
انگریزی
~ 500
معانی
0 معانی
اسم
A2
quantity
1
a 100-year time span
A time period of 100 years.
استعمال کا انداز:
[a/the] century
عام غلطی:
Learners sometimes confuse 'century' with 'decade', which is only 10 years.
ہم معنی الفاظ
hundred years (Exact equivalent but less formal and less commonly used in historical contexts.)
متضاد الفاظ
decade (Refers to a period of ten years, the opposite in scale.)
لفظی تراکیب
turn of the century
|21st century
|centuries ago
|early 20th century
|mid-century
موضوعات
history
|time
|core_vocabulary
مثالیں
- 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.
سیکھنے والوں کے لیے مثالیں
- 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.
عام غلطی:
Non-cricket fans may think 'century' here means 100 years instead of 100 runs.
ہم معنی الفاظ
hundred (Informal shorthand for scoring 100 runs in cricket.)
متضاد الفاظ
duck (In cricket, scoring zero runs in an innings.)
لفظی تراکیب
score a century
|hit a century
|make a century
موضوعات
sports
|core_vocabulary
مثالیں
- 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.
سیکھنے والوں کے لیے مثالیں
- He scored a century in the match.
- She made her first century last year.
- A player gets a century when they score 100 runs.
گرامر
لغت میں درج شکل
century
IPA
GB/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
US/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚi/
ہجا بندی اور زور
cen - tury (2 ہجے)
Stress on 1st syllable (cen)
لفظ کی شکلیں
Noun
- Base: century
- Plural: centuries
متعلقہ الفاظ
Forms
centuries
noun
Related words
centennial
adjective
centenary
noun
Advanced or less common
centenarian
noun
bicentennial
adjective
عبارات
centuries ago
1/sˈɛnt͡ʃɚiz əɡˈoʊ/
fixed phrase
a very long time ago (hundreds of years)
A time many hundreds of years before now.
مثالیں
- 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.
مثالیں
- 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.
مثالیں
- Many new inventions appeared around the turn of the century.
- She was born at the turn of the 19th century.