Hundred

English

Numeral

Hundred (plural Hundreds)

1. (cardinal) 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

     it 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 […]

Notes

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
• cf. a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men
• cf. 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

Synonyms

• (numerical): a hundred, one hundred
• For symbolic forms of this entry, see 100.

Derived terms

• hundredfold, hundredweight, hundredth, hundreds and thousands, hundredaire

Noun

Hundred (plural Hundreds)

1. (US) A hundred-dollar bill.
2. (historical) An administrative subdivision in southern English counties and in other countries.
3. (cricket) A hundred runs scored by a batsman.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.

Synonyms

• (hundred-dollar bill): Franklin
• (cricket: hundred runs): century

Thesaurus

C, Kreis, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, bicentenary, bicentennial, bishopric, borough, canton, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, century, city, commune, congressional district, constablewick, county, cwt, departement, diocese, district, duchy, electoral district, electorate, government, gross, hamlet, hecatomb, hundredweight, long hundred, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan area, oblast, okrug, one C, parish, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, tercentenary, tercentennial, territory, town, township, village, wapentake, ward

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: C
• ISO prefix: hecto-
• Exponential notation: 10²

Etymology

From Old English hundred.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, IPA: /ˈhʌn.dɹəd/, /ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/, SAMPA: /"hVn.dr@d/, /"hVn.drId/
• (mostly nonstandard) IPA: /ˈhʌn.dɚd/, /ˈhʌn.dʒɚd/

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• Hyphenation: hun‧dred

Translations

Numeral

cardinal number 100

Afrikaans: honderd (af) Albanian: qind (sq) Arabic: مائة (ar) (mí'a) f., مئة (ar) (mí'a) f. (common misspelling), ١٠٠ (ar) Egyptian Arabic: مية (miyya), ميت (miit) (before a noun) Aramaic: Syriac: ܡܐܐ (m’ā’) c., ܡܐܬܐ (ma’tā’) f. Armenian: հարյուր (hy) (haryur) Avestan: satǝm Aymara: pataka Azeri: yüz (az) Basque: ehun Belarusian: сто (be) (sto) Bengali: শত (bn) (śata) Bosnian: sto (bs) Breton: kant Bulgarian: сто (bg) (sto) Burmese: ရာ (my) (ra) Catalan: cent (ca) m. and f. Chamicuro: pachak Chechen: бIе (bje) Cherokee: ᏍᎪᏗᏔᏭᏈ (sgoditawukwi) Cheyenne: noˀka mȧhtóhtȯhnóˀe Chinese: Cantonese: 百 (baak3) Mandarin: 百 (cmn) (bǎi) Teochew: zeg8beh4, beh4 Choctaw: tahlepa ačǎfa Coptic: ϣⲉ Corsican: centu Creek: cokpe Crimean Tatar: yüz Croatian: sto (hr) Czech: sto (cs) Danish: hundred (da), hundrede (da) Dena'ina: ghedasdlin Dutch: honderd (nl) f. Egyptian: šaā Esperanto: cent (eo) Estonian: sada (et) Finnish: sata (fi) French: cent (fr) m. Galician: cen (gl) Garífuna: san Georgian: ასი (ka) (asi) German: hundert (de), einhundert (de) Gothic: hund Greek: εκατό (el) (ekató), εκατόν (el) (ekatón) Ancient Greek: ἑκατόν (hekatón) Guaraní: sa Gujarati: સો (gu) (sau) Haitian Creole: san Hebrew: מאא (m’ā’) c., מאתא (ma’tā’) f. Hebrew: מאה (he) (meá) Hindi: सौ (hi) (sau), १०० (hi), सैकड़ा (hi) (saikṛā) Hungarian: száz (hu) Icelandic: hundrað (is), eitt hundrað (is) Ido: cent (io) Indonesian: ratus (id) Interlingua: cento Irish: céad Italian: cento (it) m. Japanese: 百 (ja) (ひゃく, hyakú) Karachay-Balkar: джюз (jüz) Kazakh: жүз (kk) (jüz) Khakas: чӱс (čüs) Khmer: មួយ‌រយ (km) (muoy roy) Klallam: náč̕əwəč Korean: 백 (ko) (bæk) (百 (ko)) Kurdish: sed, سه‌د Lakota: opawiƞǧe Latin: centum (la) Latvian: simts (lv) Lithuanian: šimtas (lt), šim̃tas (Old Lithuanian) Macedonian: сто (mk) (sto) Malay: ratus (ms)

Malayalam: നൂറ് (ml) (nooru) Maltese: mija (mt) Manchu: ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡ (tanggū) Manx: keead (gv) Marathi: शंभर (mr) (śabhara) Mayo: mamni taká Mi'kmaq: gasgʼptnnaqan Middle Breton: kant Middle English: hundredth Middle Welsh: cant Miwok: ṣijento Mohawk: tewenˀniawe Mongolian: зуу (mn) (zuu) Classical Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭᠤᠨ (jaγun) Navajo: neeznádiin, tʼááłáhádí neeznádiin Northern Sami: čuođi Norwegian: hundre (no) Nottoway-Meherrin: kaharsthree Novial: sent Ojibwe: ingodwāk Old Church Slavonic: съто (sŭto) Old English: hund (ang) Old French: cent Old Frisian: hundred Old High German: hunt Old Irish: cét Old Norse: hundrað n. Old Saxon: hunderod Old Welsh: cant Ottawa: godwak Pashto: سل (ps) (səl) Persian: صَد (fa) (sad) Polish: sto (pl) Portuguese: cem (pt), cento (pt) Rapanui: ho’e hanere Romanian: sută (ro) f. Russian: сто (ru) (sto), сотня (ru) (sótnja) f. Sanskrit: शततमः (sa) (śatatamaḥ) Santali: ᱥᱳ (so) Sardinian: centu Scottish Gaelic: ceud m. Serbian: сто (sr) (sto) Serbo-Croatian: сто (sh), sto (sh), стотина (sh) f., stotina (sh) f. Shoshone: biasēmote Sinhalese: සියය (si) (siyaya) Slovak: sto (sk) Slovene: sto (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: sto Upper Sorbian: sto (hsb) Spanish: cien (es), ciento (es) Swahili: mia (sw) Swedish: hundra (sv) Tagalog: daan (tl) Tamil: நூறு (ta) (nūṟu) Taos: tę̋tę̌, si̋eną Tarahumara: biré ciento Tatar: йөз (tt) (yöz) Telugu: వంద (te) (vanda), నూరు (te) (nooru) Thai: ร้อย (th) (rói), ๑๐๐ (th) Tocharian A: känt Tocharian B: kante Tonkawa: seːnto Turkish: yüz (tr) Turkmen: ýüz (tk) Tutelo: okeni Ukrainian: сто (uk) (sto) Urdu: سو (ur) (sau) Uyghur: يۈز (ug) (yüz) Uzbek: yuz (uz) Vietnamese: một trăm (vi), trăm (vi) Volapük: tum (vo) Welsh: cant (cy) West Frisian: hûndert Yiddish: הונדערט (yi) (hundert)

Noun

hundred-dollar bill

Finnish: satanen (fi) German: Hunderter m. Greek: κατοστάρικο (el) (katostáriko) n.

Macedonian: стотка (mk) (stótka) Russian: сотня (sótnja) f., сотенная (sótennaja) f., сторублёвка (storubljóvka) f., стодолларовка (stodollaróvka) f.

hundred runs

Telugu: శతకం (satakam)

See also

• wapentake

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: round · kind · form · #279: hundred · believe · white · means

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Danish

Alternative forms

• (cardinal) hundrede, 100
• (noun) hundrede

Etymology

From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hunrəd/, [ˈhunɐð]

Numeral

Hundred

1. (cardinal) hundred

Noun

Hundred n. (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)

1. a unit of about one hundred

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Old English

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *hunda-raþ (“telling of 100”). Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod (Dutch honderd), Old High German hundert (German Hundert), Old Norse hundrað (“120; 100”) (Swedish hundra (“100”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhundred/

Numeral

hundred

1. (cardinal) hundred