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- [huhn-drid]
- /ˈhʌn drɪd/
- /ˈhʌndrəd/
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- [huhn-drid]
- /ˈhʌn drɪd/
Definitions of hundred word
- noun plural hundred a cardinal number, ten times ten. 1
- noun plural hundred a symbol for this number, as 100 or C. 1
- noun plural hundred a set of this many persons or things: a hundred of the men. 1
- noun plural hundred hundreds, a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars. 1
- noun plural hundred Informal. a hundred-dollar bill. the sum of one hundred dollars. 1
- noun plural hundred (formerly) an administrative division of an English county. 1
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Origin of hundred
First appearance:
before 950 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 950; Middle English, Old English (cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hundred, Old Norse hundrath, Dutch honderd, German hundert), equivalent to hund “a hundred” (cognate with Gothic hund; akin to Latin centum, Greek hekatón, Avestan satəm, Sanskrit śatám, Old Church Slavonicsŭto, Lithuanian šímtas) + -red “tale, count,” from Germanic rath, akin to Gothic rathjō “number, account” (see read1)
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Parts of speech for Hundred
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
hundred popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
hundred usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for hundred
adj hundred
- hundredth — next after the ninety-ninth; being the ordinal number for 100.
- centenary — The centenary of an event such as someone's birth is the 100th anniversary of that event.
- centennial — A centennial is the same as a centenary.
- century — A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
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