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   hundred

   /ˈhʌndrəd/

   cardinal

   • 1. the number equivalent to the product of ten and ten; ten more than ninety; 100: "a hundred yards away"
   • ▪ the numbers from one hundred to 999: "an unknown number, probably in the hundreds, had already been lost"
   • ▪ several hundred things or people: "her coat cost hundreds of pounds"
   • ▪ an unspecified large number: "hundreds of letters poured in"
   • ▪ the years of a specified century: "the early nineteen hundreds"
   • ▪ one hundred years old: "you must be over a hundred!"
   • ▪ one hundred miles per hour.
   • ▪ a batsman's score of a hundred runs or more: "his ninth Test hundred"
   • ▪ (chiefly in spoken English) used to express whole hours in the twenty-four-hour system: "twelve hundred hours"

   noun

   • 1. a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court: historical British "Wantage Hundred"

   Word Origin late Old English, from hund ‘hundred’ (from an Indo-European root shared with Latin centum and Greek hekaton) + a second element meaning ‘number’; of Germanic origin and related to Dutch honderd and German hundert. The noun sense ‘subdivision of a county’ is of uncertain origin: it may originally have been equivalent to a hundred hides of land (see hide3).

   Derivatives

   • 1. hundredfold adjective

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