hundred

Etymology
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Usage notes
Used only for whole hundreds (a final 00 in a number), and then only for distances (including altitudes). Thus 10,900 m is one zero thousand nine hundred meter, but 10,946 m is one zero thousand nine four six meter and 200° is two zero zero degree.

Alternative forms

 * Arabic numerals: 100
 * Roman numerals: C
 * ISO prefix: hecto-
 * Exponential notation: 102

Etymology
From, from , from , from (from ) + , a neuter variant of. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 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

Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word hundred is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or other modifier to function as a numeral. Hundred can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.
 * a hundred women / one hundred women / the hundred women
 * compare a dozen women / one dozen women / the dozen women
 * compare ten women / the ten women
 * two hundred women / some hundred women
 * hundreds of women

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".

Noun

 * 1) A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
 * 2)  An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
 * 3)  Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
 * 4)  A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

Synonyms

 * (Ireland), see also, , , commote (Wales)
 * (Ireland), see also, , , commote (Wales)
 * (Ireland), see also, , , commote (Wales)

Hypernyms

 * See county and tithing

Hyponyms

 * See carucate ($1/undefined$ hundred & for smaller divisions)

Etymology
From, from , from (< ) +.

Noun

 * 1) a unit of about one hundred

Etymology 1
From, from , from ; some forms are remodelled on 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1)  A ; 100.
 * 2) A large number; a zillion.
 * 1) A large number; a zillion.

Usage notes
Much like modern, hundred needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.

Noun

 * 1) A hundredweight.
 * 2)  A  administrative division
 * 3) The assembly or court of such a division.

Etymology 2
A combination of specialised use of the cardinal and.

Adjective

 * 1)  A hundredth.

Etymology
From, from + , a neuter variant of.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1)  hundred