{
    "term": "century",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a period of 100 years",
            "sensetop": "for centuriesover the centuriesthrough the centuries",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**A century ago**, Valparaiso was the country's main port."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was born more than a century after the death of Confucius."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have lived there for centuries.",
                    "contextForm": "for centuries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their techniques have evolved over the centuries.",
                    "contextForm": "over the centuries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Those stories have been told again and again through the centuries.",
                    "contextForm": "through the centuries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There have been orchards in this region for centuries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a centuries-old custom"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a collection of paintings spanning four centuries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a marble floor worn smooth over the centuries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a tradition passed down through the centuries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A century ago, weavers and bricklayers in this working-class district won some of the earliest strikes for the ten-hour day."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time", "History"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["19th", "20th", "etc."],
                "verb + century": ["begin", "enter", "span"],
                "century + verb": ["begin", "dawn", "continue"],
                "preposition": [
                    "during the century",
                    "for centuries",
                    "in the … century"
                ],
                "phrases": ["centuries old", "the turn of the century"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "any of the periods of 100 years before or after the birth of Christ",
            "sensetop": "in a century",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the twentieth century *(= AD 1901–2000 or 1900–1999)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "during the second **half of** the fifteenth **century**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "eighteenth-century writers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **past/previous century**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **beginning/middle/end of the century**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the early **years of** the 17th **century**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the first **quarter of the century**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the last **decade of **the 20th **century**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "throughout the latter part of the 12th century"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He lived in the 16th century.",
                    "contextForm": "in a century"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the **early/late** 20th **century**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the mid-nineteenth century"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The structure dates back to the 9th century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born."
                },
                {
                    "text": "America's influence on culture grew throughout the 20th century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As the 21st century dawned, the internet promised to reshape society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As we entered the 21st century, the challenges facing our world seemed overwhelming."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was built in the 20th century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Later centuries saw the development of a complex agricultural system."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The 19th century witnessed the publication of many books on the history of art."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The city's population doubled during the 19th century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a 17th-century building"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a celebration to welcome the new century"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["19th", "20th", "etc."],
                "verb + century": ["begin", "enter", "span"],
                "century + verb": ["begin", "dawn", "continue"],
                "preposition": [
                    "during the century",
                    "for centuries",
                    "in the … century"
                ],
                "phrases": ["centuries old", "the turn of the century"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a score of 100 runs by one player",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the time when a new century/year starts",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was built at the turn of the century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team are unbeaten since the turn of the year."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsentʃəri/",
                "audio": "ce/century/century__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsentʃəri/",
                "audio": "ce/century/century__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English originally referring to a company in the ancient Roman army, of a hundred men: from Latin centuria, from centum ‘hundred’. Sense (1) dates from the early 17th cent."
}