hundred

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Numeral 1.4.1 Usage notes 1.4.2 Quotations 1.4.3 Synonyms 1.4.4 Derived terms 1.4.5 Translations 1.5 Noun 1.5.1 Synonyms 1.5.2 Translations 1.6 See also 2 Old English 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Numeral

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: C
• ISO prefix: hecto-
• Exponential notation: 10²

[edit] Etymology

From Old English hundred.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, IPA: /ˈhʌn.dɹəd/, /ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/, SAMPA: /"hVn.dr@d/, /"hVn.drId/
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• Hyphenation: hun‧dred

[edit] Numeral

hundred (plural hundreds)

1. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.

   • a hundred, one hundred
   • nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
   • hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces

[edit] 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
• cf. a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men
• cf. 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

[edit] Quotations

• 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^[sic] hundred years or so

• 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio

  it 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^[sic] 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^[sic] 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^[sic] hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies […]

[edit] Synonyms

• (numerical): a hundred, one hundred
• For symbolic forms of this entry, see 100.

[edit] Derived terms

• hundredfold
• hundredweight
• hundredth
• hundreds and thousands

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

hundred (plural hundreds)

1. (US) A hundred-dollar bill.
2. (historical) An administrative subdivision in southern English counties and in other countries.
3. (cricket) A hundred runs scored by a batsman.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.

[edit] Synonyms

• (hundred-dollar bill): Franklin
• (cricket: hundred runs): century

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• wapentake

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

Proto-Germanic *hunda-raþ (“‘telling of 100’”). Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod (Dutch honderd), Old High German hundert (German Hundert), Old Norse hundrað (“‘120; 100’”) (Swedish hundra (“‘100’”)).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhundred/

[edit] Numeral

hundred

1. (cardinal) hundred