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Hundred
Hun′dred
(hŭn′drĕd)
, Noun.
[OE.
hundred
, AS. hundred
a territorial division; hund
hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-raþjan
to count, L. ratio
reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod
, hund
, D. hondred
, G. hundert
, OHG. also hunt
, Icel. hundrað
, Dan. hundrede
, Sw. hundra
, hundrade
, Goth. hund
, Lith. szimtas
, Russ. sto
, W. cant
, Ir. cead
, L. centum
, Gr. ἑκατός
, Skr. çata
. √309. Cf. Cent
, Century
, Hecatomb
, Quintal
, and Reason
.] 1.
The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.
With many
hundreds
treading on his heels. Shakespeare
☞ The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand.
2.
A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.
Hundred court
, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred.
[Eng.]
Blackstone.
Hun′dred
,Adj.
Ten times ten; five score;
as, a
. hundred
dollarsWebster 1828 Edition
Hundred
HUND'RED
,Adj.
HUND'RED
,Noun.
1.
A division or part of a county in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families,or a hundred warriors, or a hundred manors. [But as the word denotes primarily a circuit or division, it is not certin that Alfred's divisions had any reference to that number.]Definition 2024
hundred
hundred
English
| < 99 | 100 | 101 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : hundred Ordinal : hundredth | ||
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: C
- ISO prefix: hecto-
- Exponential notation: 102
Numeral
hundred (plural hundreds)
- (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
- hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces
- a hundred, one hundred
- nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
- 2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, National Public Radio:
- That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so.
- 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio:
- [I]t applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a hundred and seventy markets.
- 2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
- Hanaton […] was founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
- 2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
- Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies […]
- 2011, Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means” , “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
- Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.
Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word hundred is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral.
- a hundred men / one hundred men / the hundred men
- compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men
- compare ten men / the ten men
Hundred can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.
- two hundred men / some hundred men
- hundreds of men
Synonyms
- (numerical): one hundred
- For symbolic forms of this entry, see 100.
Derived terms
Translations
cardinal number 100
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Noun
hundred (plural hundreds)
- A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families)
- (historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
- (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
- He made a hundred in the historic match.
Hypernyms
Synonyms
- (US hundred-dollar bill): Franklin, yard, c-note
- (administrative division): barony (Ireland), see commote (Wales)
- (cricket: hundred runs): century
Hyponyms
- (administrative division): See carucate (1/100 hundred & for smaller divisions)
Derived terms
Translations
hundred-dollar bill
historical: administrative division
See also
Statistics
Most common English words before 1923: round · kind · form · #279: hundred · believe · white · means
Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hunrəd/, [ˈhunɐð]
Numeral
hundred
- (cardinal) hundred
Noun
hundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)
- a unit of about one hundred
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“telling of 100”), from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”). Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Middle Dutch hondert (Dutch honderd), Old High German hundert (German Hundert), Old Norse hundrað (“120; 100”) (Swedish hundra (“100”)).
Pronunciation
Numeral
hundred
- (cardinal) hundred