century
CEFR: A2
A period of one hundred years, used as a fundamental macro-chronological benchmark in history, economics, and environmental science. In IELTS academic writing, ordinal constructions ('the twentieth century', 'the turn of the century') are essential for framing historical background and long-range transformations.
Synonyms
- hundred-year period
- centenary
Common Collocations
- turn of the century
- over the centuries
- twenty-first century
Example Sentence
Urban infrastructure underwent unprecedented expansion during the latter half of the nineteenth century.