Century : nm (word from latin saeculum which gave secular, secular).
The word “century” has several meanings:
I)
1. Period of one hundred years whose beginning (or end) is determined in relation to an arbitrarily defined moment, and especially in relation to the Christian era.
The second century BC (from 199 to 100 BC), the third century AD (from 201 to 300).
The fourth century of the hegira.
The seventeenth century (XVII c.).
Ten centuries (millennium).
In the last century.
End-of-the-century character.
2. Hundred period years approximately considered as a historical and cultural unit with certain characteristics.
The French eighteenth century begins in 1715 (death of Louis XIV).
The Grand Siècle: the XNUMXth century. French.
The Age of Enlightenment: the XNUMXth century.
The golden age: the XNUMXth century. Spanish.
The century of… followed by a n. pr., designates a fairly long period in the history of a people, dominated by a personality.
The century of Pericles: the XNUMXth c. av. AD in Greece. The century of Louis XIV.
Period (age): in the century in which we live.
Ideas, methods from another century (archaic, outdated).
From century to century: from age to age.
Absolt The century: time in which we live, which we talk about.
Evil of the century.
"Confession of a child of the century", work of the French poet Alfred de Musset (1810-1857).
Familiar: of the century: one of a kind, the best.
The affair, the match, the wine of the century.
3. Hundred Duration years.
A century old bed
Building that is more than a century old (centennial, secular).
For a quarter century, half a century.
4. Plural: Very long period. For centuries: for a very long time.
Past and future centuries: the past, the future.
"The Legend of the Centuries", work of the French poet, playwright, writer and novelist Victor Hugo (1802-1885).
Religion: Until consumption, the end of the centuries.
For centuries of centuries: forever.
By familiar exaggeration: It's been centuries since I've seen you, a long time ago (an eternity).
In the singular: It seemed a century to me, very long.
II) Religion: The century: the life of the world, which changes with the eras, as opposed to religious life, whose values are eternal (world).
Live in the century.
Business, pleasures of the century (secular, temporal).