hundred
Syllables: hund·redUK/ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
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British/ˈhʌnd͡ʒɹəd/
hundred numeral: a numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten.
Numeral
hundred (plural hundreds)
- A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten.
- hundreds of thousands of faces.
- a/one hundred
- Synonyms:
- cent, fivescore, one hundred, short hundred, teenty
- 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.”2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185
Noun
hundred (plural hundreds)
- A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
- Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
- A subdivision once used in parts of the United States and still in use in Delaware solely for the purpose of real estate descriptions.
- A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
- He made a hundred in the historic match.
- Synonyms:
- century
- Six score of casts of crabs (a score is twenty; a cast is two), totaling two hundred and forty crabs.
- Coordinate term: cast
- At Cromer and the neighbourhood the crabs are counted by a peculiar standard: thus, two crabs are counted as one. The two crabs being called a cast, six score cast of crabs is called a hundred. At Cromer, therefore, a hundred crabs is two hundred and forty.1876, “The Crab and Lobster Fisheries of Cromer”, in The Nautical Magazine, Cambridge University Press, page 197
hundred meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hundred in Hindi
- cardinal number 100
- सौ sau, १००, सैकड़ा saikṛā
hundred in Tamil
- cardinal number 100
- நூறு nūṟu
hundred in Marathi
- cardinal number 100
- शंभर śambhar
hundred in Urdu
- cardinal number 100
- سو sau
More languagesFewer languages
- hundred in Bengali
- শত śot, একশ ekoś
- hundred in Telugu
- వంద vanda, నూరు nūru, శతకం śatakaṁ
- hundred in Malayalam
- നൂറ് nūṟŭ
- hundred in Kannada
- ನೂರಾರು nūrāru, ೧೦೦
- hundred in Punjabi
- ਸੌ sau
- hundred in Gujarati
- સો so, ૧૦૦
- hundred in Odia
- ଶହ śaha
- hundred in Sanskrit
- शत śata, शततमः śatatamaḥ
- hundred in Sinhala
- සියය siyaya
- hundred in Assamese
- শ xo
- hundred in Nepali
- सय saya
- hundred in Pashto
- سل sël
- hundred in Tagalog
- daan
- hundred in Arabic
- مِٱئَة miʔa, مِئَة miʔa, ١٠٠, مية miyya
- hundred in Malay
- ratus
- hundred in Indonesian
- seratus, ratus
- hundred in Persian
- صَد sad
- hundred in Thai
- หนึ่งร้อย, ร้อย rɔ́ɔi
- hundred in Vietnamese
- một trăm, trăm
- hundred in Myanmar
- ရာ ra, တစ်ရာ tacra
- Sindhi
- سو so
- Dhivehi
- ސަތޭކަ satēka
- Dzongkha
- བརྒྱ brgya
Examples of hundred in a sentence
- A few hundred pounds' worth of chicken and serveral dozen eggs.
- The numbers totaled in the hundreds.
- Many hundreds more people
Synonyms of hundred
Forms of hundred
| Numeral | |
|---|---|
| plural | hundreds |
| alternative form | 100 |
| alternative form | C |
| alternative form | hecto- |
| alternative form | hunnert |
| Noun | |
| plural | hundreds |
Origin of hundred
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, hundert, Danish hundred.
Words formed from hundred
- 0-dark-hundred
- a hundred and ten percent
- a hundred percent
- bat five hundred
- be a hundred years too early
- five hundred rum
- 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
Phrases with hundred
- Old Hundred
- one hundred
- six hundred
- two hundred
- five hundred
- four hundred
- nine hundred
- eight hundred
- seven hundred
- three hundred
- eleven hundred
- twelve hundred
27 more phrasesFewer phrases
- twenty hundred
- fifteen hundred
- sixteen hundred
- eighteen hundred
- fourteen hundred
- nineteen hundred
- thirteen hundred
- bats five hundred
- hundred thousands
- seventeen hundred
- Dirty Half Hundred
- twenty-one hundred
- twenty-two hundred
- batted five hundred
- kept it one hundred
- one hundred million
- batting five hundred
- keeps it one hundred
- one hundred per cent
- one hundred thousand
- twenty-three hundred
- keeping it one hundred
- hundred twenty-eighth notes
- two hundred fifty-sixth note
- one hundred percent Americans
- two hundred fifty-sixth notes
- do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars
Questions about hundred
- What does hundred mean?
- Hundred means a numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten.
- What is hundred in Hindi?
- Hundred in Hindi is सौ (sau), १००, सैकड़ा (saikṛā). See Hundred meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hundred in a sentence?
- A few hundred pounds' worth of chicken and serveral dozen eggs.
- What part of speech is hundred?
- Hundred can be a numeral or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hundred?
- Hundred is pronounced /ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ (UK).
Words near hundred in the dictionary
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