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Definitions
[ˈhʌndrəd], (Numeral)
Definitions:
- the number equivalent to the product of ten and ten; ten more than ninety; 100
(e.g: a hundred yards away)
Phrases:
- a hundred per cent
Origin
:
late Old English hundred, from hund ‘hundred’ (from an Indo-European root shared with Latin centum and Greek hekaton) + a second element meaning ‘number’; of Germanic origin and related to Dutch honderd and German hundert. The noun sense ‘subdivision of a county’ is of uncertain origin: it may originally have been equivalent to a hundred hides of land (see hide)
[ˈhʌndrəd], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court
(e.g: Wantage Hundred)
Phrases:
- a hundred per cent
Origin
:
late Old English hundred, from hund ‘hundred’ (from an Indo-European root shared with Latin centum and Greek hekaton) + a second element meaning ‘number’; of Germanic origin and related to Dutch honderd and German hundert. The noun sense ‘subdivision of a county’ is of uncertain origin: it may originally have been equivalent to a hundred hides of land (see hide)
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