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hun⋅dred

  [huhn-drid] noun, plural -dreds, (as after a numeral) -dred, adjective
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–noun
1. a cardinal number, ten times ten.
2. a symbol for this number, as 100 or C.
3. a set of this many persons or things: a hundred of the men.
4. hundreds, a number between 100 and 999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property loss was only in the hundreds of dollars.
5. Informal.
a. a hundred-dollar bill.
b. the sum of one hundred dollars.
6. (formerly) an administrative division of an English county.
7. a similar division in colonial Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, and in present-day Delaware.
8. Also called hundred's place. Mathematics.
a. (in a mixed number) the position of the third digit to the left of the decimal point.
b. (in a whole number) the position of the third digit from the right.
–adjective
9. amounting to one hundred in number.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME, OE (c. OFris hundred, OS hundred, ON hundrath, D honderd, G hundert), equiv. to hund 100 (c. Goth hund; akin to L centum, Gk hekatón, Avestan satəm, Skt śatám, OCS sŭto, Lith šímtas) + -red tale, count, akin to Goth rathjan to reckon (see read 1 )
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hun·dred   (hŭn'drĭd)   
n.   pl. hundred or hun·dreds

  1. The cardinal number equal to 10 × 10 or 102.

  2. The number in the third position left of the decimal point in an Arabic numeral.

  3. A one-hundred-dollar bill.

  4. hundreds The numbers between 100 and 999: an attendance figure estimated in the hundreds.

  5. An administrative division of some counties in England and the United States.


[Middle English, from Old English; see dek in Indo-European roots.]
hun'dred adj.
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Word Origin & History

hundred 
O.E. hundred "a counting of 100," from W.Gmc. *khundrath (cf. O.N. hundrað, Ger. hundert), first element is P.Gmc. *hunda- "hundred" (cf. Goth. hund, O.H.G. hunt), from PIE *kmtom "hundred" (cf. Skt. satam, Avestan satem, Gk. hekaton, L. centum, Lith. simtas, O.Ir. cet, Bret. kant "hundred"). Second element is P.Gmc. *rath "reckoning, number" (cf. Goth. raþjo "a reckoning, account, number," garaþjan "to count"). O.E. also used simple hund, as well as hund-teontig. Meaning "division of a county or shire with its own court" (still in some British place names and U.S. state of Delaware) was in O.E. and probably represents 100 hides of land. The Hundred Years War (which ran intermittently from 1337 to 1453) was first so called in 1874.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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