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7-letter words (1 found)

HUNDRED,

6-letter words (4 found)

DUNDER,DURNED,HUDDEN,HURDEN,

5-letter words (7 found)

DURED,NUDER,RUNED,UDDER,UNDER,UNRED,URNED,

4-letter words (24 found)

DERN,DUDE,DUED,DUNE,DURE,DURN,ERHU,HEND,HERD,HERN,HUED,HUER,NERD,NUDE,NURD,REDD,REND,RUDD,RUDE,RUED,RUND,RUNE,UNDE,URDE,

3-letter words (23 found)

DEN,DUD,DUE,DUH,DUN,EDH,END,ERN,HEN,HER,HUE,HUN,NED,NUR,RED,REH,REN,RUD,RUE,RUN,URD,URE,URN,

2-letter words (12 found)

DE,ED,EH,EN,ER,HE,NE,NU,RE,UH,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of hundred

hundred

Translingual

Etymology

From English hundred.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhandrɛd/

Noun

hundred

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for hundred.

Usage notes

Used only for whole hundreds (final 00 in the number), 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.

References

Alternative forms

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

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.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, hŭnʹdrĭd, IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɹəd/, /ˈhʌndɹɪd/
  • (mostly nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɚd/, /ˈhʌnd͡ʒɚd/
  • Hyphenation: hun‧dred

Numeral

hundred (plural hundreds)

  1. 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
  2. (24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.

Usage notes

Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word hundred is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or other modifier to function as a numeral.

  • a hundred women / one hundred women / the hundred women
  • compare a dozen women / one dozen women / the dozen women
  • compare ten women / the ten women

Hundred can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.

  • two hundred women / some hundred women
  • hundreds of women

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".

Synonyms

  • (numerical): cent (obsolete, except in per cent), one hundred

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri

Translations

Noun

hundred (plural hundreds)

  1. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
  2. (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
  3. (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
  4. (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

Synonyms

  • (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

Hypernyms

  • (administrative division): See county and tithing

Hyponyms

  • (administrative division): See carucate (1⁄100 hundred & for smaller divisions)

Derived terms

  • Chafford Hundred
  • hundredal
  • Hundred End

Translations

See also

  • wapentake

References

Anagrams

  • hunderd

Danish

Alternative forms

  • (cardinal) hundrede
  • (noun) hundrede

Etymology

From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hunrəd/, [ˈhunɐð]

Numeral

hundred

  1. hundred

Descendants

  • → Greenlandic: hundredi

Noun

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

  1. a unit of about one hundred

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hundred, from Proto-West Germanic *hundarad, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”); some forms are remodelled on Old Norse hundrað.

Alternative forms

  • hondred, houndred, houndreth, hundered, hundereth, hunderyth, hundreþ, hundret, hundreth, hundrid, hundrit, hundrythe, hwndreth
  • honderd, hundurd

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhundrɛd/, /ˈhundrɛθ/, /ˈhundərd/

Numeral

hundred

  2. A hundred; 100.
  3. A large number; a zillion.
Usage notes

Much like modern English hundred, hundred needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.

Derived terms
  • hundredfold
Descendants
  • English: hundred
    • → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
  • Scots: hunder, hunner
  • Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hundereth; hunderth, hunnert
References
  • “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

hundred (plural hundredes)

  1. A hundredweight.
  3. A hundred (administrative division)
  4. The assembly or court of such a division.
Derived terms
  • hundredpeny
Descendants
  • English: hundred
References
  • “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 2

A combination of specialised use of the cardinal and hundred (“hundred”) +‎ -the (ordinal suffix).

Alternative forms

  • hondraȝte, hondred, hondredaȝte, hundredeþe, hundret, hundreþ, hundreth, hundrid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhundrɛd/, /ˈhundrɛθ/, /ˈhundər/

Adjective

hundred

  2. A hundredth.
Descendants
  • English: hundredth
References
  • “hundredethe, ord. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”), from *hundą + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).

Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxun.dred/, [ˈhun.dred]

Numeral

hundred n

  1. hundred

Declension

Synonyms

  • hund
  • hundtēontiġ

Descendants

  • Middle English: hundred
    • English: hundred
      • → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
    • Scots: hunder, hunner
    • Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hundereth; hunderth, hunnert

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Source: wiktionary.org