century

century note

A United States $100 bill. In an attempt to impress his date, Fred pulled a century note out of his pocket to pay for dinner.
See also: century, note

the turn of the century

At or near the end of one century and the beginning of another. At the turn of the 20th century, the introduction of factory electrification caused a huge boom in manufacturing. Scientists predict we won't see artificial intelligence that sophisticated until the turn of the century.
See also: century, of, turn

the turn of the year

At or near the end of one year and the beginning of another. The turn of the year is always my busiest period as that's when our annual audit takes place. It's a little strange because their new fiscal year starts in March, unlike most companies who start theirs at the turn of the year.
See also: of, turn, year
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

turn of the century

the time when the year changes to one with two final zeros, such as from 1899 to 1900. (Although technically incorrect-a new century begins with the year ending in 01—most people ignore this.) My family moved to America at the turn of the century. My uncle was born before the turn of the last century.
See also: century, of, turn
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

turn of the century

The beginning or end of a particular century, as in That idiom dates from the turn of the century, that is to say, about 1900. This expression was first recorded in 1926.
See also: century, of, turn
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

the ˌturn of the ˈcentury/ˈyear

the time when a new century/year starts: He was born around the turn of the century.
See also: century, of, turn, year
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

century note

n. a one-hundred-dollar bill. (see also C-note.) I got a couple of century notes for driving these guys home from the bank.
See also: century, note
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • century note
  • the turn of the century
  • the turn of the century/year
  • turn of the century
  • last-ditch defense/effort
  • fin de siècle
  • Grub Street
  • an apple a day (keeps the doctor away)
  • ahead of time
  • ahead of your time
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This is Century 21 Department Stores's second retail location in New Jersey and the fifth in the metropolitan New York area for the retailer, a discounter of quality designer clothing and accessories whose stores have an upscale, department store ambiance.
Baptist missions work overseas changed a great deal during that century, and modern missionaries found themselves in a different position from that of their forbearers.
13th century: When Pope Innocent III convened the Fourth Lateran Council, he invited, in addition to bishops, representative priests and laymen as voting members.
21st Century has brought that same level of bar code integration to the scrap industry.
The remaining four contributions concentrate on what can safely be called the Aristotelian revival of the late sixteenth century. They concentrate, not on the Poetics, whose availability in various forms dates from the mid-sixteenth century, but on Aristotle's political and ethical works.
The history of the book, which in the mid--twentieth century was a rather minor and dull subdivision of all historical enquiries, has evolved in the hands of leading historians such as Henri-Jean Martin, Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, and Richard Rouse into the history of books and reading, one of the most vibrant areas of contemporary historical research.
But members of the SNTS Pseudepigrapha Seminar which met in 1977 in Tubingen and again in 1978 in Paris dated it from the first century C.E.
For much of the 20th century this template was synonymous with a set of "virtues." That is, the template consisted of characteristics that were virtuous.
Fabi's privileging black male texts in her study on subversive passing tropes follows the grain of the male critics whom she censures and substantially ignores the substantial fictional contributions of African American women at the end of the nineteenth century, a period touted as the black woman's era.
The use of the Jesus Prayer is attested in the twelfth century in the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, but there is evidence that it was already present in its fully developed form in the sixth century.
Because trade with the East and the West was the driving force behind the development of Dubrovnik, suspension of trade during plague epidemics in the 14th century would have been disastrous for the city.
"When you set out to write a script about a hotel room, you're going to be writing about sex, because that's what happens in hotel rooms," explains David Weaver, the director and co--writer of Century Hotel, a high--concept entry in this year's Perspective Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival.
It is to the zone of occult instability where the people dwell that we must come." The question raised by "The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994," which opened in February at Munich's Museum Villa Stuck, is exactly how to comprehend and represent this "zone of occult instability." The goal demands a new cartography for a knotty complex of intellectual, political, and popular discourses, to demonstrate, for example, how cultural and political concerns converged to effectively rupture colonial hegemony.
At the beginning of the new millennium, this article reviews the legacy of the 20th century and considers selected theoretical and practical issues likely to be prominent in the practice of career development in the decades immediately ahead.
At the start of the twenty-first century, Charles jencks gives a personal, perceptive and provocative summary of the architecture of the twentieth.