yearhundred

== English == === Alternative forms === year-hundred, year hundred === Etymology === From year +‎ hundred. Calque of German Jahrhundert (“century”), from Jahr (“year”) + Hundert (“hundred”). Compare Scots yeirhunder, Saterland Frisian Jierhunnert, German Jahrhundert, Danish århundrede, Swedish århundrade, Norwegian århundre, all meaning “century” and being composed of the cognates (sisterwords) of English year and hundred. === Noun === yearhundred (plural yearhundreds) (very rare, puristic) Century (a hundred-year timespan). 1914, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Volume 25: Are we thereby to date also St. Peter and St. Paul, St. Stephen and St. James in the Third Century, the Fourth and still posthumous Yearhundreds of the Christian era? Holonym: yearthousand