Hundred

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: hÅ­nʹdrÄ­d, IPA: /ˈhÊŒn.dɹɪd/
• mostly nonstandard IPA: /ˈhÊŒn.dÉšd/, /ˈhÊŒn.dÍ¡Ê’Éšd/
• Hyphenation: hun + dred

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 100 see for numerical forms in other scripts
• Roman numerals: C
• ISO prefix: hecto-
• Exponential notation: 10

Origin

From Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą ("count"). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.

Full definition of hundred

Numeral

1. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of facesa hundred, one hundrednineteen 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...
• 2011, Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means” http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0035-ironic.htm?&t=1344795725, “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.

Usage 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

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

Synonyms

• (numerical) one hundred

Derived terms

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

Noun

1. (US, Canada) A hundred-dollar bill.
2. (historical) An administrative subdivision of land 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

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

Derived terms

• hundredal