CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred. Century is sometimes abbreviated as c.

Detailed explanation-2: -Word forms: centuries A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.

Detailed explanation-3: -Any year beginning “20xx” is part of the 21st Century because they form the 21st set of hundred years in recorded time. When we reach 2100, time will have been recorded for 21 centuries. Consider the start of recorded time – the first century were the first hundred years of time, years through 0 to 99.

Detailed explanation-4: -A century is any period of a hundred years.

Detailed explanation-5: -All this because, according to the calendar we use, the 1st Century included the years 1-100 (there was no year zero), and the 2nd Century, the years 101-200. Similarly, when we say 2nd Century B.C.E.