hundred

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.

   hundreds of thousands of faces.

2. 2
   num

   The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.

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

3. 3
   noun

   A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.

4. 4
   adj

   being ten more than ninety

5. 5
   noun

   ten 10s

6. 6
   noun

   A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).

7. 7
   noun

   An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.

8. 8
   noun

   Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire

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.