What is another word for hundred years?

Pronunciation: [hˈʌndɹəd jˈi͡əz] (IPA)

A century is a period of one hundred years, and it can be referred to in many different ways. Some common synonyms for the hundred-year period include a century, a hundred-year span, a centennial, a hundred-year cycle, and a hundred-year era. Additionally, you could describe the time period as a hundred-year interval, a hundred-year duration, or simply a hundred years. Other creative synonyms for century could include a century-long epoch, a century of time, or a hundred-year span of history. No matter how you choose to describe a hundred years, it remains an incredibly long time in the grand scope of human history.

What are the hypernyms for Hundred years?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Hundred years

  • There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
    Alfred Adler
  • Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.
    Josef Albers
  • Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
    A. R. Ammons
  • You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
    Birch Bayh

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