# hundred

Pronunciation: say "HUN-druhd" /ˈhʌndɹəd/

## Numeral

1. The numerical value equal to 100, falling immediately after ninety-nine in counting.
   - Simple: The number equal to 100, the one that comes right after ninety-nine.
   - _The stadium held just over a hundred spectators that night._
   - _He earned a hundred dollars mowing lawns all summer._
4. The spoken form of '00' in the minutes position when reading a time on the twenty-four-hour clock.
   - Simple: The way the '00' minutes are spoken when telling time on a twenty-four-hour clock.
   - _Report to the gate at fourteen hundred for boarding._
   - _The patrol returns at twenty-two hundred each night._

## Noun

2. A banknote with a face value of 100, such as a hundred-dollar bill or a hundred-euro note.
   - Simple: A piece of paper money worth one hundred dollars, euros, or the like.
   - _The waiter couldn't break a hundred so early in the morning._
   - _She left two hundreds on the table for the excellent service._
3. In the plural, following a number that gives a century's first two digits: the years making up that century, as in the eighteen hundreds.
   - Simple: Used as "hundreds" after a number to name a group of one hundred years, as in "the eighteen hundreds".
   - _Most of the town's brick buildings date from the mid-eighteen hundreds, when the railroad arrived._
   - _Women's clothing changed dramatically over the course of the nineteen hundreds._
5. In cricket, a single batsman's score of one hundred runs or more in an innings.
   - Simple: In cricket, a score of one hundred runs or more made by a single batter.
   - _The opener brought up his hundred with a sharp single down the ground._
   - _She has now made three hundreds this season._
6. A subdivision of a county with its own court, used for local government in England and parts of Britain's former colonies, and still used in some places to identify land.
   - Simple: An old part of a county, with its own court, still used in some places to name pieces of land.
   - _The sheriff summoned every freeman of the hundred to the open-air court._
   - _Several neighboring hundreds were grouped together for the king's levy._

## Origin

Proto-Germanic *hundaradą combined *hundą, which goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm, with *radą, meaning "count." It passed into Old English as hundred and kept that form in Middle English. Dutch honderd, German Hundert, and Danish hundred are relatives.

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