Hundred

['hʌndrəd]

Definition

(noun.) ten 10s.

(adj.) being ten more than ninety .

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Definition

(n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.

(n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.

(a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Century.

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Definition

n. the number of ten times ten: a division of a county in England orig. supposed to contain a hundred families.—adjs. Hun′dredfold folded a hundred times multiplied by a hundred; Hun′dredth coming last or forming one of a hundred.—n. one of a hundred.—n. Hun′dredweight a weight the twentieth part of a ton or 112 lb. avoirdupois; orig. a hundred lb. abbreviated cwt. (c. standing for L. centum wt. for weight).—Hundred days the period between Napoleon's return from Elba and his final downfall after Waterloo (the reign lasted exactly 95 days March 20-June 22 1815); Hundred years' war the struggle between England and France from 1337 down to 1453; Chiltern Hundreds a district of Bucks whose stewardship is a nominal office under the Crown the temporary acceptance of which by a member of parliament enables him technically to vacate his seat; Great or Long hundred six score; Not a hundred miles off an indirect phrase for 'here ' 'in this very place;' Old Hundred or Hundredth a well-known long-metre setting of the hundredth psalm 'All people that on earth do dwell.'

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