hundredth
Syllables: hun·dredth/ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/
hundredth adjective: the ordinal form of the number one hundred.
Adjective
hundredth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
- This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why.2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech, South by Southwest Music Conference
- Synonyms:
- 100th, 100ᵗʰ
Noun
hundredth (plural hundredths)
- The person or thing in the hundredth position.
- One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.
- We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive...2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023
hundredth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu
hundredth in Hindi
- ordinal of 100 — see also 100th
- शततम śattam, सौवाँ sauvā̃
- person or thing in the hundredth position
- सौवाँ sauvā̃, सौवें sauvẽ, सौवीं sauvī̃
- one of a hundred equal parts of a whole
- सौवाँ sauvā̃
hundredth in Tamil
- நூறாவது
hundredth in Marathi
- ordinal of 100 — see also 100th
- शंभरावा śambhrāvā, शंभरावी śambhrāvī, शंभरावे śambhrāve
hundredth in Telugu
- one of a hundred equal parts of a whole
- శతాంశము śatāṁśamu
More languagesFewer languages
- hundredth in Malayalam
- നൂറാം nūṟāṁ, നൂറാമത്തെ nūṟāmatte
- hundredth in Punjabi
- ਸੌਵਾਂ sauvā̃
- hundredth in Sanskrit
- शततम śatatamá
- hundredth in Tagalog
- pang-isang daan
- hundredth in Arabic
- مائة māʔa
- hundredth in Indonesian
- keseratus
- hundredth in Persian
- صدم sadom
- hundredth in Vietnamese
- thứ một trăm
Synonyms of hundredth
- 100th
- 100ᵗʰ
Forms of hundredth
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative Early Modern | hundreth |
| Noun | |
| plural | hundredths |
Origin of hundredth
From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix), displacing Old English hundtēontigoþa.
Words formed from hundredth
Phrases with hundredth
Questions about hundredth
- What does hundredth mean?
- Hundredth means the ordinal form of the number one hundred.
- What is hundredth in Hindi?
- Hundredth in Hindi is शततम (śattam), सौवाँ (sauvā̃), सौवें (sauvẽ). See Hundredth meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hundredth?
- Hundredth can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hundredth?
- Hundredth is pronounced /ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/.
Words near hundredth in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hundredth (page history and authors); hundredth (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸੌਵਾਂ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); शततम (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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