Century

Century

A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred; abbreviated c.) is one hundred consecutive years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages (e.g. "the 7th century AD/CE").

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    “Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.”
    —17th century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)