Hundred
//ˈhʌn.dɹəd// noun, num
noun, num ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- 2 ten 10s wordnet
- 3 An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres. historical
- 4 Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire broadly, historical
- 5 A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
"He made a hundred in the historic match."
Adjective
- 1 being ten more than ninety wordnet
Numeral
- 1 A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.
"hundreds of thousands of faces."
- 2 The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
"“Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I'll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”"
Example
More examples"One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006."
Etymology
From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.
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