Hundred Definition
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English
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: C
- ISO prefix: hecto-
- Exponential notation: 102
Etymology
From Old English hundred.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, IPA: /ˈhʌn.dɹəd/, /ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/, SAMPA: /"hVn.dr@d/, /"hVn.drId/
- (mostly nonstandard) IPA: /ˈhʌn.dɚd/, /ˈhʌn.dʒɚd/
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Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: hun‧dred
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
- 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 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 […]
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
Synonyms
- (numerical): a hundred, one hundred
- For symbolic forms of this entry, see 100.
Derived terms
Noun
hundred (plural hundreds)
- (US) A hundred-dollar bill.
- (historical) An administrative subdivision in southern English counties and in other countries.
- (cricket) A hundred runs scored by a batsman.
- He made a hundred in the historic match.
Synonyms
Translations
hundred-dollar bill
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See also
Statistics
Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /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
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”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhundred/
Numeral
hundred
- (cardinal) hundred
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