[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)