hundred
Pronunciation Numeral
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Pronunciation Numeral
- cln en 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
- 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 hundred years or so.
- 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio:
- [I]t 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 hundred and seventy markets.
- 2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
- Hanaton […] was founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
- 2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
- Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies […]
- 2011, Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means” , “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
- Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.
- (24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
- 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
- “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”
- 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
- (numerical) one hundred
- French: cent
- German: hundert, einhundert, Hundert
- Italian: cento
- Portuguese: cem, cento
- Russian: сто
- Spanish: cien, ciento
hundred (plural hundreds)
- A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
- (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
- (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
- He made a hundred in the historic match.
- (US hundred-dollar bill) Franklin, yard, c-note
- (administrative division) barony (Ireland), see also riding#Etymology 2, wapentake, rape#Etymology 2, commote (Wales)
- (cricket: hundred runs) century
- German: (hundred-any-currency bill) Hunderter
- Russian: со́тня
- Russian: со́тня
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