hundred
TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hundred
- (international standards) NATO,ICAO,ITU & IMO phonetic alphabet code for hundred.
Usage notesEdit
Used only for whole hundreds, and then only for distances (including altitudes). Thus 10,946 m is one zero thousand nine four six meter and 200° is two zero zero degree.
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EnglishEdit
1,000 | ||||
← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 101 → [a], [b], [c], [d] | 200 → |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: hundred Ordinal: hundredth Multiplier: hundredfold Latinate multiplier: centuple Collective: hundred Multiuse collective: centuplet Metric collective prefix: hecto- Metric fractional prefix: centi- Elemental: centuplet Number of years: century, centennium |
Alternative formsEdit
- Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: C
- ISO prefix: hecto-
- Exponential notation: 102
EtymologyEdit
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”).[1].
Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, hŭnʹdrĭd, IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɹəd/, /ˈhʌndɹɪd/
- (mostly nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɚd/, /ˈhʌnd͡ʒɚd/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: hun‧dred
NumeralEdit
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” [2], “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 notesEdit
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".
SynonymsEdit
- (numerical): cent (obsolete, except in per cent), one hundred
Derived termsEdit
- 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
- Hundred End
- hundred thousand
- hundred twenty-eighth note
- Hundred Years' War
- hundred-dollar hamburger
- hundred-handed
- hundred-something
- hundred-thousandth
- hundred-year storm
- hundred-year-old
- hundredaire
- hundredal
- hundredary
- hundreder
- hundredfold
- hundredman
- hundredpeny
- hundreds and thousands
- hundredsomething
- hundredth
- hundredthly
- hundredweight
- 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 percent
- one hundred percent American
- one-hundred-year storm
- short hundred
- yearhundred
- zero hundred
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NounEdit
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.
SynonymsEdit
- (collection of 100 things): centuplet; centenary (obsolete)
- (US hundred-dollar bill): Franklin, yard, c-note
- (administrative division): barony (Ireland), see also riding, wapentake, rape, commote (Wales)
- (cricket: hundred runs): century
HypernymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- (administrative division): See carucate (1⁄100 hundred & for smaller divisions)
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EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
hundred
DescendantsEdit
- → Greenlandic: hundredi
NounEdit
hundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)
- a unit of about one hundred
Middle EnglishEdit
← 10 | ← 90 | 100 | 1,000 → | |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: hundred Ordinal: hundred Multiplier: hundredfold |
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English hundred, from Proto-West Germanic *hundarad, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”); some forms are remodelled on Old Norse hundrað.
Alternative formsEdit
- honderd, hondred, houndred, houndreth, hundered, hundereth, hunderyth, hundreþ, hundret, hundreth, hundrid, hundrit, hundrythe, hundurd, hwndreth
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
hundred
- A hundred; 100.
- c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)[3], folio 34, recto, lines 34-35; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:
- [Þ]au pilatuſ him come wid ten hu[n]dꝛed cniſteſ. / yet ic wolde louerd foꝛ þi loue fiſte.
- "If Pilate himself came with ten hundred knights, / Lord, I would still fight for your sake."
- A large number; a zillion.
Usage notesEdit
Much like modern English hundred, hundred needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
NounEdit
hundred (plural hundredes)
- A hundredweight.
- A hundred (administrative division)
- The assembly or court of such a division.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- English: hundred
ReferencesEdit
- “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “hundred, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2Edit
← 10 | ← 90 | 100 | 1,000 → | |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: hundred Ordinal: hundred Multiplier: hundredfold |
A combination of specialised use of the cardinal and hundred (“hundred”) + -the (ordinal suffix).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
hundred
- A hundredth.
DescendantsEdit
- English: hundredth
ReferencesEdit
- “hundredethe, ord. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old EnglishEdit
1,000 | ||||
← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 101 → | 1,000 → |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: hund, hundred, hundtēontiġ Ordinal: hundtēontigoþa Multiplier: hundfeald |
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”), from *hundą + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).[1].
Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
hundred n
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DescendantsEdit
- Middle English: hundred