English Explanatory Dictionary

yearhundred

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Century (a hundred-year timespan).

Word forms

yearhundred yearhundreds year-hundred year hundred

Etymology

From year + hundred. Calque of German Jahrhundert (“century”), from Jahr (“year”) + Hundert (“hundred”). Compare Scots yeirhunder, Saterland Frisian Jierhunnert, German Jahrhundert, Danish århundrede, Swedish århundrade, Norwegian århundre, all meaning “century” and being composed of the cognates (sisterwords) of English year and hundred.

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