hundred

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

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.

• enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, hŭnʹdrĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈhʌndɹəd/, /ˈhʌndɹɪd/
• (mostly nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌndɚd/, /ˈhʌnd͡ʒɚd/

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• Hyphenation: hun‧dred

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

   • 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:

     [I]t 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” , “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:

     Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.

2. (military time) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes in the military version of the 24-hour clock.
   • 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:

     “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”

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

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".

• (numerical): one hundred

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

• → Hawaiian: haneli

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.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.

• (administrative division): See county and tithing

• (US hundred-dollar bill): Franklin, yard, c-note
• (administrative division): barony (Ireland), see also riding, wapentake, rape, commote (Wales)
• (cricket: hundred runs): century

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

• hundredal

• wapentake

• hunderd

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

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

• IPA^(key): /hunrəd/, [ˈhunɐð]

hundred

1. hundred

• → Greenlandic: untriti

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

1. a unit of about one hundred

From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“telling of 100”), from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”). Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Middle Dutch hondert (Dutch honderd), Old High German hundert (German Hundert), Old Norse hundrað (“120; 100”) (Swedish hundra (“100”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhundred/

hundred

1. hundred

• Middle English: hundred
  • Scots: hunder, hunner
  • English: hundred
    • → Hawaiian: haneli