English Explanatory Dictionary

hundred

English dictionary entry

Meanings

num
  1. A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.
  2. The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
noun
  1. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
  2. An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
  3. Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
  4. A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

Pronunciation

hŭnʹdrəd hŭnʹdrĭd /ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ /-dɹɪd/ En-us-hundred.ogg En-au-hundred.ogg /ˈhʊndɹəd/ /ˈhʌndɾəd/ /ˈhʌn.d͡ʒəɹd/ /ˈhʌn.dəɹd/ /ˈhʌndəɹt/ /ˈhʌnəɹt/

Word forms

hundred hundreds 100 C hecto- hunnert

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.

Synonyms

cent fivescore one hundred short hundred teenty centuplet centenary Franklin yard c-note barony riding wapentake rape commote century

Related words

wapentake

Derived words

0-dark-hundred a hundred and ten percent a hundred percent bat five hundred be a hundred years too early give a hundred percent great hundred hundo hundredaire hundredary hundred-dollar hamburger hundred-dollar word hundreder hundredfold hundred-handed hundred-legs hundredman hundred million hundredpeny hundreds and thousands hundredsome hundredsomething hundred-something hundredth hundredthly hundred thousand hundred-thousandaire hundred-thousandth hundred twenty-eighth note hundredweight hundred-yard stare hundred-year egg hundred-year-old hundred-year storm Hundred Years' War keep it one hundred long hundred oh dark hundred one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen one hundred and one one hundred percent one hundred percent American one-hundred-thousandth one-hundred-year storm short hundred The Hundred yearhundred zero hundred hundredal Chafford Hundred daddy hundred Hundred End
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