hundred, one hundred
(adjective) being ten more than ninety
hundred, century, one C
(noun) ten 10s
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hundred
A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
(24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
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".
• (numerical): one hundred
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.
• (administrative division): See county and tithing
• (US hundred-dollar bill): Franklin, yard, c-note
• (administrative division): barony (Ireland), see also riding, wapentake, rape, commote (Wales)
• (cricket: hundred runs): century
• (administrative division): See carucate (1/100 hundred & for smaller divisions)
• hunderd
Source: Wiktionary
Hun"dred, n. Etym: [OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. çata. sq. root309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.]
1. The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak.
Note: The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand.
2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.
Hun"dred, a.
Definition: Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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