hundred
Part of speech: num
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: 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, Danish hundred.
Inflected forms:
form: hundreds
pos: num
tags: plural
form: 100
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: C
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: hecto-
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: hunnert
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: hundreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 100
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: C
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hecto-
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hunnert
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.
pos: num
examples: hundreds of thousands of faces.
a/one hundred
A few hundred pounds' worth of chicken and serveral dozen eggs.
The numbers totaled in the hundreds.
Many hundreds more people
A few hundred migrants who have been waiting in Reynosa, Mexico, for the end of the US pandemic public health order, known as Title 42, were allowed to seek asylum this week, sources on the ground told CNN.
The announcement comes amid mounting pressure on university administrators to rein in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which have erupted periodically on college campuses across the country over the past year and led to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.
gloss: The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
pos: num
examples: “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I'll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”
gloss: A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
pos: noun
gloss: An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
pos: noun
tags: broadly
historical
gloss: A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
pos: noun
examples: He made a hundred in the historic match.
Synonyms: centuplet
centenary
Related words: wapentake
Derived words: 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
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
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