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IPA transcription: ['sɛntʃɚi]
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Noun
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a period of 100 years
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ten 10s
Usage examples
- In the eighteenth century Scotland reaped the intellectual benefits of this system.
- China's population growth has slowed since the beginning of this century.
- The movement was a reaction to religious progressivism earlier in the century.
- Baratynsky's style is classical and dwells on the models of the previous century.
- Vimmerby had its charter as early as the fourteenth century.
- During the nineteenth century, Saratoga County was an important industrial center.
- Loudoun also contained two villages abandoned during the last century, "Alton" and "Loudoun Village".
- Successive Tuareg "Tel"s have controlled the area since at least the twelfth century.
- Hillsboro schools serving Aloha include Century High School, R. A.
- Gore was founded in the nineteenth century, growing up around "Ras" Tessema Nadew's palace.