Century vs. Decade

Centurynoun

A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

Centurynoun

A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

Centurynoun

A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

Centurynoun

A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.

Centurynoun

(cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.

Centurynoun

(sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.

Centurynoun

A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

Centurynoun

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

Centurynoun

A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.

Centurynoun

A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

Centurynoun

100 years

Centurynoun

ten 10s

Century

A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages.

Decadenoun

A series or group of ten entities.

Decadenoun

A historical period of the ten years in which the beginning year ended in "0" and the ending year ended in "9".

Decadenoun

Any given period of ten years.

Decadenoun

(history) In the French Revolutionary calendar, a group of ten days.

Decadenoun

(Roman Catholicism) A series of ten beads (or the prayers associated with them) in the rosary

Decadenoun

The interval between any two quantities having the ratio 10 to 1.

Decadenoun

Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.

Decadenoun

A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

Decadenoun

a period of 10 years

Decadenoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system

Decade

A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the Ancient Greek: δεκάς, romanized: dekas, which means a group of ten.