C. Explained

C. or c. may refer to:

• Century, sometimes abbreviated as c. or C., a period of 100 years
• Letter C, the third letter in the alphabet.
• Cent (currency), abbreviated c. or ¢, a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of many currencies
• Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as C., a common Latin praenomen
• Circa, abbreviated as c. (or ca., circ., cca, and cc.) a Latin word meaning "about" or "around"
• Abbreviation c. meaning "chapter" in legal citation
• Prefix c/c. (and cc/cc.) meaning "column(s)" as in-source-locator in old citations (example: "c130")

See also

• C (disambiguation)
  • C, third letter of the English and Latin alphabets
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), who sometimes used pen-name C., an English poet and philosopher