hundred
English
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Cardinal: hundred Ordinal: hundredth Multiplier: hundredfold Latinate multiplier: centuple Group collective: hundred Multipart collective: centuplet Metric collective prefix: hecto- Metric fractional prefix: centi- Elemental: centuplet Number of years: century, centennium |
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: C
- ISO prefix: hecto-
- Exponential notation: 102
Etymology
From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.
Pronunciation
- enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, hŭnʹdrĭd, IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɹəd/, /ˈhʌndɹɪd/
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Audio (US): (file) Audio (AU): (file) Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: hun‧dred
Numeral
hundred (plural hundreds)
- 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” [1], “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
- Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.
- (24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
- 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
- “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”
- 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
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
In telling military time, "hundred" is typically only used for exact hours, e.g. 09:00 is "oh nine hundred" and 21:00 is "twenty-one hundred", while 03:30 is "oh three thirty". Sometimes, nonstandardly (e.g. in fiction by authors not entirely familiar with military time-telling), 03:30 may be read as "oh three hundred thirty".
Synonyms
- (numerical): one hundred
Derived terms
Descendants
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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) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
- (by extension, 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 also riding, wapentake, rape, commote (Wales)
- (cricket: hundred runs): century
Hyponyms
- (administrative division): See carucate (1/100 hundred & for smaller divisions)
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See also
Anagrams
Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
hundred
Descendants
- → Greenlandic: untriti
Noun
hundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)
- a unit of about one hundred
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”), from *hundą + *radą (“count”). Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.
Pronunciation
Numeral
hundred n
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
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