centuries
Long historical stretches
Centuries is the plural of century, a period of one hundred years.
The word appears constantly in historical writing: The practice dates back centuries.
Numbered centuries count from year one: the 1900s were the twentieth century, a source of perpetual confusion.
It took centuries to build the cathedral.
Distance between endpoints
- passageSegment of text
- millenniaThousand-year periods
- decadesTen-year periods
- generationsPeople born around same time
ages · eons · longevity · endurance · persistence · continuity · epochs · intervals
Distinct historical period
- ageDuration of existence
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- renaissancePeriod of renewed vitality
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
victorian · classical · baroque · enlightenment · romantic · industrial · byzantine · colonial
Ordered historical record
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- empireDomain under unified control
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
tradition · revolution · reformation · archives · historiography · genealogy · monarchy · artifact
Ordinal for eighteen
- nineteenthPosition after eighteen
- twentiethOrdinal for twenty
- twenty-firstOrdinal for 21
- fifteenthPosition number after fourteen
sixteenth · seventeenth · fourteenth · thirteenth · twelfth · numbering · dating · calendar
span
Distance between endpoints
generations · ages · eons · longevity · endurance · persistence · continuity · epochs · intervals · periodicity
epoch
Distinct historical period
- ageDuration of existence
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- renaissancePeriod of renewed vitality
medieval · victorian · classical · baroque · enlightenment · romantic · industrial · byzantine · colonial · feudal
chronicle
Ordered historical record
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- empireDomain under unified control
heritage · tradition · revolution · reformation · archives · historiography · genealogy · monarchy · artifact · documentary
eighteenth
Ordinal for eighteen
- nineteenthPosition after eighteen
- twentiethOrdinal for twenty
- twenty-firstOrdinal for 21
fifteenth · sixteenth · seventeenth · fourteenth · thirteenth · twelfth · numbering · dating · calendar · chronology
runs
Moves fast on foot
sixes · fours · wicket · partnership · maiden · batting · bowling · fielding · overs · milestone
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- timelinestimelines, chronology, chronologies, time periods, historical periods
- numeric rangespercentages, rating scales, decades, millennia, salary ranges
- temporalitytime, duration, past, present, future
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- time conceptsclock, calendar, hour, minute, second
centuriesthe present
Current moment in time
now · the here and now · today · the moment · fleeting moments
century, millennium, centennial, bicentennial, centenarian, bicentenary, tercentenary, millennials, tricentennial