Keyword
era
Info
FrequencyTop 1400-1500
Type
Kyōiku (5th grade) 
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KankenLevel 6
Heisig1454
Readings
(99%)
Composed of
thread
oneself
Used in vocabulary (75 in total)
century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
public morals; discipline; rules governing social behavior
period; Nihon-shoki
Examples (73 in total)
Were you born in the 20th century or in the 21st?
This house was built in the 16th century.
This island belonged to France in the 19th century.
This church was built in the 12th century.
This church dates from the 12th century.
The old church on the hill dates back to the twelfth century.
His works will endure for centuries.
He was born in the 19th century.
We're going to the party in eighteenth century costumes.
Science is the way to prepare for the 21st century.
2001 is the year when the 21st century begins.
Can you imagine what the 21st century will be like?
The twenty-first century starts in just a few years.
The twenty-first century begins in 2001.
Modern philosophy has its beginnings in the 19th century.
I wonder how many people born in the 19th century are still alive.
The town lay buried for centuries.
Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.
During the 19th century, many inventions were developed.
He studied the scientists considered to be the most significant of the 19th century.
This temple dates from the 7th century.
Scientific knowledge has greatly advanced since the 16th century.
The fine arts flourished in Italy in the 15th century.
Tennis began in France in the thirteenth century.
In the 19th century, the number of immigrants increased rapidly.
The nineteenth century was the age of the white man's civilization.
The story goes back to the sixteenth century.
This custom dates back to the 12th century.
Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.
A hundred years is called a century.
Prophets have been forecasting the end of the world for centuries.
And then the Romans came in 55 B. C.
Christ was born in 4 BC.
Some of the oldest Chinese chopsticks date from 1200 B.C.
This oil painting dates from the 17th century.
This style of hairdressing first appeared in the early 19th century.
The 21st century is going to be based on economic power.
The wedding will be held in a 17th century church.
The species will be made extinct by the end of this century.
Had Napoleon been born in this century, what could he have done?
Humanity has suffered more from war in this century than ever before.
Many improvements have been made since this century began.
Our century has seen a notable increase of knowledge.
By the end of the century, the earth will have experienced a dramatic increase in temperature.
Science has made rapid progress in this century.
It is well known that up to the middle of the last century Japan was a feudal state.
The 19th century saw the Industrial Revolution.
At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.
The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.
It is generally believed that a trip to the moon will be made possible during this century.
Many big projects will be completed in the 21st century.
The atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics.
We are living in the latter half of the twentieth century.
There is no telling how far science may have progressed by the end of the twentieth century.
In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.
Football was played in China in the second century.
It is said that the castle dates back to the 11th century.
Afghanistan and Iran both changed their national anthems several times in the course of the 20th century.
Looking back on our college days, it seems as if they were a century ago.
It is over a century since slavery was made illegal.
His life spanned nearly a century.
A century is one hundred years.
One hundred years is called a century.
Yukio Mishima killed himself in 1970.
Who do you like better, Akiko or Sachiko?
I like Sachiko better than Akiko.
By the year 2020, the population of our city will have doubled.
In the nineteenth century, many Africans were sold as slaves in the United States.
Not until the end of the nineteenth century, did plant breeding become a scientific discipline.
The first electric calculator came into existence toward the end of the 19th century.
John Wayne was one of the most popular movie stars of this century.
Oceans are expected to rise by 50 centimeters by the end of the next century.
The Ghost of Cock Lane is an English ghost story from the 18th century.