Century

1. n. One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
2. n. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
3. n. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
4. n. A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.