centuries
- 1Plural of century.
The manuscript lay hidden for centuries in a sealed monastery vault.
Several centuries separated the rise and fall of the two empires.
Note
A regular plural, made by turning the final -y of century into -ies, as with any noun ending in a consonant plus y. The plural carries every meaning of the singular: centuries of history, the centuries of a Roman cohort each commanded by a centurion, the political centuries meeting in the Centuriate Assembly, and a cricketer's centuries, each a hundred runs in an innings.
centuries is a form of century
century, noun: A period of one hundred consecutive years, often a numbered span such as the twentieth century, running roughly from 1900 to 1999. Full entry
- Forms
- centurycenturies plural
- Spelling
- century → centuries: change y to i, add -es
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