TWENTIETH CENTURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twentieth century mean? 

• TWENTIETH CENTURY (noun)
  The noun TWENTIETH CENTURY has 1 sense:

1. the century from 1901 to 2000

  Familiarity information: TWENTIETH CENTURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTIETH CENTURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The century from 1901 to 2000

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("twentieth century" is a kind of...):

century (a period of 100 years)

 Context examples 

His honest black face, and the immense view before us, which carried us half-way back to the affluent of the Amazon, helped us to remember that we really were upon this earth in the twentieth century, and had not by some magic been conveyed to some raw planet in its earliest and wildest state.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)