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hundred adj : being ten more than ninety [syn: a hundred, one hundred, 100, c] n : ten 10s [syn: 100, C, century, one C, centred]

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English

Pronunciation

, /"hVndr@d/
Hyphenation: hun·dred

Etymology

hundred

Cardinal number

hundred

The cardinal number that is the second power of ten, occurring after ninety-nine, represented in Roman numerals as C and in Arabic numerals as 100. Ordinal: hundredth.
- a hundred, one hundred
- nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
- hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces

- Last: ninety-nine, ninety, ten
- Next: one hundred one, two hundred, thousand
ISO prefix: hecto-

Translations

cardinal number 100

* A: känt
* B: kante
Albanian: qind
Arabic: (mé’a)
Aramaic:

Syriac: ܡܐܐ (m'ā, m'o) , ܡܐܬܐ (ma'thā, ma'tho)
Hebrew: מאא (m'ā, m'o) , מאתא (ma'thā, ma'tho)
Avestan: satǝm
Aymara: pataka
Basque: ehun
Bosnian: sto, stotina
Breton: kant
Bulgarian: сто (sto)
Catalan: cent
Cherokee: ᏍᎪᏗᏔᏭᏈ (sgoditawukwi)
Cheyenne: noˀka mȧhtóhtȯhnóˀe
Chinese: 百 (Pinyin: bǎi, Cantonese: baak3)

Teochew: zeg8beh4, beh4
Choctaw: tahlepa ačǎfa
Corsican: centu
Creek: cokpe
Crimean Tatar: yüz
Croatian: sto
Czech: sto
Danish: hundred, hundrede
Dena'ina: ghedasdlin
Dutch: honderd
Egyptian: šaā
Esperanto: cent
Estonian: sada
Finnish: sata
French: cent
Galician: cen
Garífuna: san
Georgian: ასი (asi)
German: hundert, einhundert
Gothic: hund
Greek: εκατό (ekató), εκατόν (ekatón)
Guaraní: sa
Gujarati: સો (sau)
Hebrew: מאה (meá)
Hindi: सौ (sau)
Hungarian: száz
Icelandic: hundrað , eitthundrað
Indonesian: ratus
Interlingua: cento
Irish: céad
Italian: cento
Japanese: 百 (ひゃく, hyakú)
Khmer: (muoy roy)
Klallam: náč̕əwəč
Klingon:  (vatlh)
Korean: 백 (bæg)
Kurdish: sed,
Lakota: opawiƞǧe
Latin: centum
Lithuanian: šimtas
Malayalam: നൂറ് (nooru)
Maltese: mija
Manchu: tanggū
Manx: keead
Marathi: शंभर (śabhara)
Mayo: mamni taká
Mi'kmaq: gasgʼptnnaqan
Middle Breton: kant
Middle English: hundredth
Middle Welsh: cant
Miwok: ṣijento
Mohawk: tewenˀniawe
Northern Sami: čuođi
Norwegian: hundre
Novial: sent
Odawa: godwak
Ojibwe: ingodwāk
Old English: hund
Old High German: hunt
Old Icelandic: hundrað
Old Irish: cét
Old Lithuanian: šim̃tas
Old Norse: hundrað
Old Welsh: cant
Persian: (sæd)
Polish: sto
Portuguese: cem, cento
Rapanui: ho’e hanere
Romanian: sută
Russian: сто (sto)
Sanskrit: शतेन (śatena), शतं (śata)
Sardinian: centu
Scottish Gaelic: ceud
Serbian: сто (sto)
Shoshone: biasēmote
Sinhala: සියය (siyaya)
Slovak: sto
Slovenian: sto
Spanish: cien, ciento
Swedish: hundra
Tagalog: daan
Tarahumara: biré ciento
Tatar: йөз, yöz
Telugu: వంద (vanda), నూరు (nooru)
Thai: (rói)
Tocharian:
Tonkawa: seːnto
Turkish: yüz
Ukrainian: сто (sto)
Welsh: cant
West Frisian: hûndert

Quotations

2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, National Public Radio

That has really soared over the past a [sic.] hundred years or so
2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio

it applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a [sic.] hundred and seventy markets.

Noun

hundred (plural hundreds)

A hundred-dollar bill.
An administrative subdivision in southern English counties and other countries.
a hundred runs scored by a batsman

He made a hundred in the historic match.

Translations

hundred-dollar bill

Finnish: satanen
German: Hunderter
Greek: κατοστάρικο
Russian: сотня (sótnja) , сотенная (sótennaja) , сторублёвка (storubljóvka) , стодолларовка (stodollaróvka)

hundred runs