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centurion.

An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.

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Meaning & usage

noun/sɛnˈtjʊəɹ.i.ən/UK/sɛnˈtʃʊəɹ.i.ən/UK/-ɔːɹ.i.ən/UK/sɛnˈtjʊɹ.i.ən/US
  1. An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.

    historical
  2. A player who scores a century.

  3. A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed one hundred night landings on an aircraft carrier.

    US
Where this word comes from

From Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”).

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